I will admit, I have no children. Its one of the few real "sorrys" in my Life. Still I have a few adopted nieces and nephews, children of my friends. I can tell that their own Lives have something wrong with it but couldn't put my finger on it until I read this recent article.

"I work with kids. Here’s why they’re consumed with anxiety."

"In a recent piece at BuzzFeed, Anne Helen Petersen described the burnout so many millennials experience. As she puts it, burnout is “the millennial condition. It’s our base temperature. It’s our background music. It’s the way things are. It’s our lives.”

While many of us who work with kids don’t want to name the likelihood that the generation behind us will do even worse than us, it’s hard not to see that we communicate it to them regardless. These kids aren’t even being told that the point of all the work and the stress is a better life — they’re being told it’s necessary just to survive. These kids live with what philosopher Pascal Bruckner calls “tension without intention.” They’re constantly stressed, and they’re growing aware that there’s no payoff for it all."

When I was a child we had Shop Class, we had Home Ec. We had Tech Schools that if you didn't imagine a 4 year college for yourself, allowed you to train to be an auto mechanic, machinist or electrician. Good solid careers that would support you and your family then. And still do now. I'm a trained machine operator and make nearly $20 an hour. My auto mechanic makes even more.

That person with a college degree who can't find a job who is now working at the local fast food joint is making $7.85 an hour.

Lets be honest please, the push to have your children go to college is all about the Bullshit that People in Power tell you. The Lie is that you aren't successful unless you have that piece of paper on the wall. Go to college and get a degree in a field that too many other people also seek, means that your soon to be employer holds all of the cards. They can replace you at the drop of a hat if you refuse any demand. Work 55-60 hours a week, sure. Don't do it and we will get someone who will. Add to that, getting the degree for that job puts you into a deep hole of debt. Funny how that is one of the few debts you can't wipe out with bankruptcy, isn't it? That debt would be worth it, if it actually got them a good paying job. Instead all it seems to do is pay for a ever increasingly expensive college infrastructure.

Greer talked about this. Having too many people for the available positions in the Bureaucracy that service the Powers That Be, allows them the power to kick you out. It makes you fearful and makes you willing to do their dirty work. The World doesn't need another English Major. The World doesn't need another Business Major. But you know what, a good auto mechanic will always be able to trade their skills for food and shelter. A competent electrician will always be able to find work.

The most powerful thing you can do for your children is sit down with them and tell them its ok not to enter the Rat Race.