At 17, fresh out of high school, my job title was Hanger at a turkey packing plant.?ÿ Simple, but hard, work that paid $2.12 per hour for a 38 hour week, zero benefits.?ÿ The Government Inspector had to show up four days per week for a total of six hours and physically be on the packing line observing the 50 or so workers in action.?ÿ He made $8.00 per hour.?ÿ His annual salary was the equivalent of many of my college professors.?ÿ I wanted his job.?ÿ Why go to college and be in debt for years when you could make as much as the professors did with nothing but on-the-job training.
One daughter told me a couple of months ago that she was jumping on the gravy train that headquarters somewhere near the Washington Monument.?ÿ She told me a couple of weeks ago that the gravy train had passed through her city and took away all $69,000 of her unpaid college loan debt.?ÿ She has a high -paying job and has nearly paid off the mortgage on her $300,000 house.