Why 47% of Millennials are Regretting Their Career

Why 47% of Mellinials are Regretting Their Career



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[captainaverage]

I envy the kids of today. They have all the resources they need to discover what their calling is at a young age.
But there is also the problem of too much information causing analysis paralysis.

You are spot on, colleges have been marketed as the only way to succeed in life and parents believed it and fed the children the same info.

[rickjobs]

As a parent my son now 26, when he graduated I watched tons of horror stories on student debt. I told him I can pay for community college but not a university. I also informed him he will not take a loan for college. It was hard when everyone is pushing for a degree now we talk and he would say his college friends are miserable. Stay strong parents.

[MillionaireMindsetClub]

These kids take 50K loans and make 30K a year. Now they are stuck paying off their loans for the next 10-20 yrs of their life!

[wiseowl]

I've changed careers four times in my working life. Only once was it planned. The other three times were sheer opportunity.

[NoneYa-pgdk]

As a millennial with no college education, there is pros and cons to both side of the story. No college education means working from the bottom up and using those experiences to build a portfolio, but it took me 10 years to make $50k. Give or take if that’s worth it to you. Regardless, I want my kids to go to college if I can afford it to get the experience and expand their knowledge or to figure things out. Not everyone will know what they want to do until they have experience. You gotta start from somewhere, but I wouldn’t go into debt for it.

[turtleheadedbadger]

Hey Ken, love the Ken Coleman show. You spelled millennials abhorrently.

[sureshkumar-kxxz]

This guy is amazing! Like his way of conversation and expressions!

[JDobbs]

This video really spoke to me.
I'm 50 now I spent most of my life struggling to make enough money to pay the bills now that I make enough money I'm a commercial driver which is not what I was meant to do.
I don't ever recall being encouraged to find out what I was meant to do of course also I was not into religion until recently.
Have recently started the process of finding a job that is actually right for me now that I know what I was meant to do the messed up thing is I did not find out what I was meant to do by the educational system I found out through a religion.
Thanks to Dave Ramsey's program I've learned to cut my debt and do smarter things I'm well on my way to paying off my debt.

[momomnc]

My dad told me I should be a teacher. "But Dad! I don't like kids!"

I'm a teacher. Took me decades to figure it out. Got my training. Love it! And the kids! (I'm in a private school system.)

[musicalone]

i turned 40 a few months ago, and i went to college AND grad school and racked up a lot of debt that i’m still paying. i don’t consider myself a millennial, and there’s different definitions of what years qualify someone as a millennial. regardless, i read this article days ago, and i think about these issues a lot. for me, there was no way i could have found my current career as a kid, and i think that was part of the issue. i work in an industry that literally didn’t exist when i was a teenager because of how much technology has advanced. i help businesses increase revenue selling online, mostly on amazon. i considered majoring in business in college but wasn’t interested enough in it back then, and no one in my family has ever suggested a corporate career or being an entrepreneur to me. i got a psych degree, and i find psych very helpful to figuring out marketing strategy and indirectly related to being good at analyzing/interpreting data. it took a long time and i was lost for quite a while, but i finally found the right career and now make a salary that justifies having attended college.

[janetmeunier]

I love it when you go on your rants
You do it in a kind straightforward way that makes me want to listen. Too good advice. And I agree I think you're absolutely right and sometimes we need someone to raise their voice be passionate about what you believe in

[islandbeauty]

I advise my younger siblings or anyone who will listen to find something they’re passionate first prior to enrolling and applying to colleges. Think about and look into vocational school or get a certificate instead of going to college with a degree that isn’t worth it along with a pile of debt that will keep you in enslaved.

[jutde]

18 years ago, I let myself get talked into quitting the welding career I was on after high school to go back to college. I gave up $15/hr to learn on the job on the way to $45/hr current (I know because my friend started that career with me and was smart enough to tell his parents to leave him alone). I now make $19/hr as a drafter after 1 year of generals trying to decide what to do and 2 years for the diploma, all on loans. I'm paying off the last loan this year. Yeah, college is great.

[nosharksinmypool]

This is really sad. Millennials were raised to be trophies

[nahidilyas]

It is nice to see someone to not put all the blame on the millennials and recognize that parents, educators, and societies probably didn't do the best leading the millennials.

[tonioceans]

Ken... Bro! I love you but your math got me like that Nick Young meme (confused). Bottom line: if you can make it as a millionaire career coach with out math that's proof we don't need to go to a 4 year college. Love you man!

[kathleenhillier]

Yeah $30k student loans, no career and no degree. Grandpa said, "You're gonna be a bulldog!" I was a first generation college student but for what?

[SamanthaSalmon]

My parents encouraged me to do what I want but I had to go to college

[ChrisMilton]

I wish that I would’ve stuck with my childhood dream of being a pilot (was already flying planes). Instead I chose social work which eventually turned its back on me and cast me out like a leper with a lifetime ban. There is nothing wrong with the desire to make money. Thanks Rage Against the Machine and Noam Chomsky.

[angelarellano]

Just gonna leave how to spell “millennials” here 😉 this is for your title 🙃