PBA: I hate to take this out on you but your attitude is exactly the type of magical thinking that is putting the entire yeshiva world in danger of collapsing. Of course you are going to make lots of money starting tomorrow. You are going to show up at Google and say, “I’m a yeshiva guy with a lot of potential, pay me $160,000!” And they are going to laugh in your face. Can you program a simple code? Can you fix a broken pipe? Can you file a tax return? Can you even drive a taxi?
Like all yeshiva guys, you think that showing up and claiming that your capable will lead to everyone chasing after you and throwing money at you. The yeshiva system was able to start because our grandparents did not have that entitled attitude. They came willing to toil away in any industry, be it the garment industry or real estate or the diamond industry – all of which are strenuous, and they then had b’ezras hashem a bit of income that they could devote to avodas hashem. But this generation, like you, just believes that they can just show up. But that is not going to work. How are you going to face your children and tell them that you were not able to provide for them the way that your parents and grandparents provided for you?
Have you ever done any hishtadlus, tried to learn a skill or a trade? Tried to work your way from the ground up? NO! You are just going to show up tomorrow, the way yesterday you were going to show up today, and the way the following day you are going to show up still one day hence, until after 120. How are you going to face your grandparents in shamayim and explain to them that the kollel system is dead? Stop talking about how your going to get a job and actually something to build some valuable skills, so that our Torah lifestyle is not resting on a few delusional people’s magical dreams.