Sorry to hear that

I've worked in HR across a number of industries and I'm seeing a crossing of projections when it comes to comp, I've been looking at it for a number of years.

Anecdote: saw an HR Coordinator job, pretty standard entry level role last week posted for $23/HR. Required 4 year degree, preferences for major, 58 bullet points in job description, etc.

Saw a Dave's Hot Chicken Shift Supervisor role that's been posted for over a year now for $23.00/hr. I think it's a newer chain. Anyway, they're being aggressive with the rate as many f&b places have been to try to hire and retain coming out of the pandemic. No previous experience, no education required.

Overall I think the scam of the structure of "higher ed" is well exposed at this point, while of course a college degree and different path give you the potential of maybe having a good job mostly after having waded through a decade or two of corporate insanity, politics, and layoffs. Had a sandwich at a Jersey Mike's a few days ago and the employee was an accounting associates student who had no plans on any education after he finished as he saw it as junk debt.

It was 15 years ago in the great recession that I predicted trade schools would come back with a bang but we aren't there still for some reason.