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I was saving for college and aware of the costs from the age of 14. That's why I got a job at 15.
It was pretty easy to understand. They showed me a piece of paper with all the numbers. Basic mathematics.
The issue is that people 'follow their passions' and then later find out there are no liveage wage jobs in those areas, and act outraged and like life is unfair. But... if you need a job after school that pays a certain amount... well you need to plan for that too.
Your friend went into a field were jobs are scare and difficult to get even good times and you often need a masters or better in any science field to get an entry level position. His lack of research is his own fault. Not anyone else's. Nobody is owed a job inbiology just because they studied it, and most people who get those jobs go to top programs and are top performers.
Your friend needs to get a job in an office, pushing papers, like vast majority of us. Those are the jobs that are available. Take their bio dataset skills, and join a marketing firm, like the rest of us.
Sorry, I just have no empathy for the tons of people who get an edcuation, then throw it all away because they didn't get the dream job they think they are owed who actively refuse to apply to jobs that are 'below' them. FWIW I have a brother who is in this rut right now. He refuses to get jobs that are 'below' him so he has been unemployed for 3 years now. He's a prideful idiot.
I went to an ivy league school and my first job was pushing papers because it was the first job I could get. And I built up my job skills and my career. I didn't sit around living at home for months/years whining about how there are 'no good jobs'. I got to work and started paying off my loans. I have zero empathy for the people who sit around and refuse to work because they feel it is 'below' them to work outside of a certain field/industry or income level.
We should be building a world where this is not the case! We should be building a world where people can become skilled at something without significant cost and shift careers when they decide they need to. Even better, a world where careers are optional and people just do what they need to to contribute to society and can otherwise enjoy life
Remember these are life-changing decisions made by teenagers, a cohort specifically known for making poor decisions and not considering long term ramifications of these decisions. Yes everyone can name someone who made poor decisions in college and is paying the price for them, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't build a world that's less harsh to people who do so!
I love the projection here as you make up a story for someone you never met. I met this individual when we both worked at a callcenter making $12/hr. He did everything right, he got his Masters from a good university, he published research while in college, continued to do what independent research he could outside of college, yet because some idiot in power who themselves never graduated college decided to demolish state funded university research with a single stroke of a pen, my colleague was left to fight for whatever scraps he could get after doing everything right. He did everything right and still ended up royally fucked, yet he still continued to do the right thing and eventually found himself finally in a job in his field a decade after graduation. This is not a system that's setup optimally, this is a system that badly needs to be fixed!