Hear, hear. I have two kids. Both will graduate from top of the heap academic schools. One will likely end up living in a tree and picking bugs out of his beard to study under a microscope. The other wants to save the world with unicorns and puppies. The neighbor kid is going to the local CC for twelve to eighteen months to finish his training as a C&C programmer/operator. I guarantee he will out earn at least one if not both of my kids throughout his lifetime. There are a whole lot of different paths to success for a whole lot of different kinds of people.