“Unveiling the Shadows: 55 Ordinary Industries That Conceal Sinister Secrets You Never Knew Existed”
2. Institute a ‘No academic dismissal’ policy. You can carry a 0.0 through the fall semester and be welcome back in the spring.
3. Ruin housing. They enroll more students than they had rooms for, resulting in triples instead of doubles, converted lounges to barracks style rooms, and even put students up in local motels until they could find rooms for them. Parents are not made aware of this until move-in day.
4. Refuse to expel students guilty of criminal behavior, at least until after the deadline where students would be eligible for refunds
5. Cut the resources of their campus police and security departments so their ability to actually investigate criminal behavior is limited.
6. Actively hampered criminal investigations so that word doesn’t get around that there are safety concerns associated with overcrowding and s**t enrollment standards.
7. Fire experienced department heads who can properly serve students and replace them with people they can pay lower salaries to
8. Cut support services budgets and freeze employment lines, resulting in manpower shortages in the departments meant to support students
….and more. Everything college administrations are doing is designed to pull a dollar through the door and keep it there….even at the expense of the security and well-being of the students they bring in.
I’m going to say Finance but not for the reason most people think. I work in trading, and my colleagues are some of the smartest people on the planet. Former chemists, physicists, virologists, aerospace engineers, statisticians, materials scientists, and etc. They all get burnt out barely able to keep their research going and being for grant money, then they get recruited into financial firms to do the same kind of work they enjoy but get paid 10x or even 100x. They don’t have to deal with customers, and they see direct indicators of the quality of their work.
Finance takes people who could be changing the world for the better, and once they cross the event horizon there’s no going back. The other half of the problem is how difficult it is to get funding for research to improve the world, but finance is the black hole from which there is no escape.
