Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Are you Anti-College? #shorts

3 May 2022 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker addresses a common question—whether he is anti‑college. He clarifies that he is not opposed to higher education itself, but he rejects the idea that college is a universal requirement for all careers. Citing U.S. labor data, he notes that out of roughly 165 million workers, about 70 million (around half) perform hands‑on, infrastructure‑related jobs. He argues that many essential, well‑paid positions exist in skilled trades, construction, maintenance, and similar fields, and that these roles do not necessarily need a college degree. He uses an analogy to surgery, emphasizing that while some professions (e.g., surgeons, teachers, engineers) demand extensive specialized training, a large portion of the economy relies on practical, day‑to‑day work that is both vital and financially rewarding.

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Are you anti-college? You know, and that's— I get asked that a lot because, I mean, obviously the title of the book is Blue Collar Cash. I'm not anti-college at all. I'm anti-colleges for everybody. And the reason I say that is because there's 165 million people working in the United States today, and about 70 million of those people do something with their hands. So roughly half the people are doing something in some type of infrastructure role or whatever. And I think the really important thing there is, you know, obviously if you're going to operate on my shoulder so I can get back out on the golf course, I'm going to want to make sure that you know everything there is to know about surgery before you pick up that knife. And the same thing goes true for teaching or engineering or, you know, architecture, those types of things. But there's a whole lot of people out there that, that support this world and make things happen through, you know, the simple day-to-day things that we all need done. And those are some pretty lucrative positions out there.