A self-serving, egotistic controlling meddlesome billionaire telling the people he’s sworn to help educate and live their lives to the fullest tells them to “f@ck college” and become a plumber....imagine that.
Nah - just get a job working for the government
He’s actually at least partially right for once.
Our colleges are full of students who don’t belong there and only provide the raw materials of marxist indoctrination while hindering the best and brightest.
Welder/Pipe Fitter/Mechanic non union $80,000 a year...screw college
Is he nuts? Much more money in drugs...
He is right.
ROFLMAO!
Hubby's a plumber Mr. Bloombutt, and I've seen him calculate fall and do volume/mass calculations without even using so much as piece of paper! Can YOU do calculus equations in YOUR head, Mr. Mayor?
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What IS it about these liberal, elitist pricks that think jobs requiring manual labor are somehow of lesser value and the people that do them must be correspondingly of lesser intelligence??
ARGH! It just makes me want to smack them so hard their grand-kids will have bumps!
After all - there are only a limited number of mayoral jobs for arrogant Nanny State politicians.
Now, he says it. Like the liberal arts folks, gotta chance in the trades. I’d love to see Bloomie, bend an elbow, breakin’ a wrench. Yeah, right.
So this sawed-off kcirp levels with them and lets them know being a tradesman is a job for a dolt... I’m surprised he didn’t warn them against the military like Lurch did.
What an insufferable snobbish dolt. It takes intelligence, technical skill and practical sense to be a tradesman...way more than some useless educated idiot.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I actually agree with Bloomberg for once.
College is not for everyone, for most it’s frankly a waste of time and money, especially for those who take useless majors like “womens studies” or the “African American Experience”. Most people would be FAR better off in the long run going to a trade school and learning something useful they can actually master and get a good job doing.
Given what I have spent in contracting and other costs (carpentry, plumbing, tree removal and auto-repairs), I wish I had pursued one of those trades. Good plumbers & carpenters with some entrepreneurial drive can do better financially than doctors without the massive malpractice insurance.
In addition, it is impossible to outsource trades such as plumbing, carpentry, and auto repairs.
Here’s a better idea, moron (aka Bloomberg): Graduate from college. Then become a plumber.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I’m with Bloomberg on this.
Half of the kids that start college drop out, even higher for minorities, as they are usually pushed into tougher colleges than they’re qualified for (i.e., to help the diversity count).
At least half of the people that do graduate have degrees that are worth next to nothing as far as being a skill that can be used in the future. But they have shown they can read and do rudimentary math (I think), even with a useless degree.
But go into a licensed trade, learn the business well, start your own firm - there definitely is a future there.
Sigh, I hate it when I occasionally find I’m in agreement with tools like Bloomberg. But then I always cheer myself with the thought that even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in a while. Bloomberg. I mean Bloomberg, not me.
And if you are fat, dumb and stupid and a communist who cannot find a job in the real world... like doom*urd here... you just go into politics.
LLS
Yeah, pick a career where you won’t ever need to use a bloomberg terminal.
This is BS. The college I went to doesn't have anywhere near the cache of Harvard and they want $58K per year. There are lots of 2nd tier schools trying to charge that much. They are not even remotely worth the money.