When an English major lands a job checking out groceries..it is not underemployment..it is under achieving. Why didn’t she spend her college education on learning a profession or trade in high demand?
Because the trades are “beneath” them, of course! That’s blue collar. Even though there are probably more plumbing or electrician millionaires than poetry or social worker ones.
It is rare for all three to be the same.
Well, in all honesty, my frat brother from university majored in English.
The difference is that he wanted to travel to Asia, and for the past 4 years, teaches English in Japan at one of Hokkaido’s top high schools while doing translation work for Sony. At least he had a goal even before graduation and knew his future was away from America. This dumb broad is damn clueless.
Check out this Peter Shiff video on young people in New Orleans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpwAOHJsxg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Make no mistake—colleges are ripping off these kids big time.
Not necessarily.
Perhaps her gift is in English and she’d prefer to take a basic day job while working on her novel or play or whatever. It may be an entrepreneurial effort with long odds, but it is her choice, and she’s working while pursuing it.