Your number 2 is silly and it makes it hard for me to take you seriously. If those are the jobs you think students should go towards, which exactly are the dead end jobs you speak of?
Well, there is "working on a farm", which is not paid well.
And then there's growing things and selling them, which is usually very profitable, and lands you all kinds of government subsidies, depending on where you are and what you're growing.
Nursing is more for people who like to help/save other people, and it's a noble profession in my mind.