<story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asow92</author><text>All of the people I went to school with who are struggling with debt and jobs today are those who picked terrible majors or shouldn&amp;#x27;t have been in the major in the first place. They knew that it would be bad going into it and still went ahead with it anyway. We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.</text></item><item><author>jonathan-adly</author><text>I feel a lot of sympathy to kids graduating in this decade in most careers. Tons of debt, ever increasing asset prices, and terrible job market with stagnating wages.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t have rich parents, you are in a terrible spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>md2020</author><text>I agree, just want to add my anecdotal evidence. I graduated undergrad in Dec 2020 with a good job lined up, as did many of my friends who picked majors that had been the obvious good choices when they enrolled in college 4 years earlier. It was easy to see what career tracks would be good ideas, and the people I know who put in &lt;i&gt;minimal&lt;/i&gt; effort to research these before committing ended up just fine. It’s not like people who picked majors with poor employment prospects were blindsided &lt;i&gt;at any point&lt;/i&gt;. Now these are the same people who I see vocally advocating for the government to cancel their debt and cancel their rent.&lt;p&gt;I’d say I’m pretty progressive on most issues, and obviously I have sympathy for my friends that ended up this way, but I have to agree with you that one way we could end up with fewer people limping along is to just keep them from shooting themselves in the foot.</text></comment>
<story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asow92</author><text>All of the people I went to school with who are struggling with debt and jobs today are those who picked terrible majors or shouldn&amp;#x27;t have been in the major in the first place. They knew that it would be bad going into it and still went ahead with it anyway. We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.</text></item><item><author>jonathan-adly</author><text>I feel a lot of sympathy to kids graduating in this decade in most careers. Tons of debt, ever increasing asset prices, and terrible job market with stagnating wages.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t have rich parents, you are in a terrible spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>&amp;gt; There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.&lt;p&gt;People say this, but it is so often said by people not in these industries. My brother in law is an electrician and he gets paid badly, works rough hours, and is provided fairly limited safety by his employer. This is obviously a data point of one, but the fact that he feels incapable of finding a better job in his city indicates to me that this is the norm.</text></comment>