alt Hacker News> I am recommending to my kids that they avoid post-secondary
I think that's a mistake, unless you mean "and go into debt for college". Working with many people over the years the educated (in STEM) are noticably better quality than high school or bootcamp folks on average. Work ethic or amount of code written is not an issue, just the general thinking through of problems.
>unless you mean "and go into debt for college"
well, yes. i am not rich. they would need to take loans. and from what i am seeing, they would likely end up working in the exact same position as the 19 year old who decided to go directly into the workforce.
i will, of course, support them no matter what they decide. but when we discuss options, i emphasize skilled trades, or working for a few years before committing themselves to tens of thousands of dollars of debt to very possibly end up in a position that doesnt require the schooling.