We do the career thing in my part of Europe. Not at 10 but at 14 when it’s tine to decide what kind of high school you can go to.
There are ways out if it later on. You can do another 2 years on top of a 3 year vocational school to get the right type of final exam to apply for college. You can take extra classes to switch from a just-a-college to a uni degree. Then you’re free to go do masters and phds just like anyone who went to the right type of high school at 14.
Except now you’re older and more mature and probably likelier to graduate than all us shitheads who got in the normal way.
There are ways out if it later on. You can do another 2 years on top of a 3 year vocational school to get the right type of final exam to apply for college. You can take extra classes to switch from a just-a-college to a uni degree. Then you’re free to go do masters and phds just like anyone who went to the right type of high school at 14.
Except now you’re older and more mature and probably likelier to graduate than all us shitheads who got in the normal way.