Both sides have good points
I'll speak from the middle here
I will push my daughter to go to college, I know what it's like to literally break my back working hard manual labor my whole life and to work for a company that doesn't give a **** about you and then pushes you out the door once you're not useful to them anymore.
When my back went I was 30/31 years old and was making $12/hr.....in retrospect not worth it.
If I had gone to school I likely wouldn't have to go through vocational rehabilitation halfway through life. I have zero 401k zero retirement to speak of and starting all over at 37 years old. (I don't regret not going to college, just retrospective look)
At a young age I was taught the value of a dollar and that manual labor is the moving force that built this entire country; go get mine...I did that but broke myself as well. There's a fine line to balance. I mean we all can't be hard manual labor grunts. And we all can't be paper pushers or on the phones in an office building. Problem here is if my daughter stays here she will have zero future unless she wants to work at a gas station, walmart, subway or mc donalds.
Minneapolis & St. Paul are just an hour away with sooooooo many career opportunities for her/us.
That being said there's nothing wrong with being the bug guy or being the auto repairman or being a factory worker...whatever pays the bills, keeps food on the table and roof over the head is all that matters. I don't judge yall, my previous job was running an industrial gluing machine to make cabinet panels, table tops, mouldings that are made for menards, home depot, ashley furniture etc.
It's going to be so foreign to me being in an office setting, doing sedentary work from now on, and for more $$ than I was making breaking my back.
Also isn't it a parents' job to strive for their kids to do better than they did?...progression/evolution.
