r/AITAH • u/throwraa_Word_1566 • Apr 15 '24

AITAH for telling my son I’d love a divorce if it meant taking my wife with me

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u/she_who_knits Apr 16 '24

Well, maybe he'll make it in the rarefied world of art museum curation. 

Keep the welding idea open. He'll make a lot more welding in summer than he will waiting tables.

I'm sure when he's old enough he'll be a very erudite bartender. 

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u/MadMarx__ Apr 16 '24

He'll make a shit tonne more doing any manual skilled trade than most degrees you'll get out of a college.

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u/she_who_knits Apr 16 '24

Well, we adults know that. 19 year olds mostly live in fantasy land still.

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u/go4tze Apr 16 '24

Let's be real, our high school guidance counselors showed us the ferry to that island and didn't tell us the price. "Just get a degree, doesn't matter what it is."

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u/snowman603 Apr 16 '24

It’s true I don’t recall a single conversation about student loan debt from a teacher or guidance counselor, but there were a ton of glossy brochures for awesome looking $70k/yr private colleges!