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Five Million College Grads in Jobs that Don't Require a High School Diploma
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | February 11, 2013 | Wynton Hall

Posted on 02/11/2013 8:05:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A new study finds that 48% of recent college graduates are now in jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree, and 37% hold jobs that require just a high school diploma.

The study, titled “Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed? University Enrollments and Labor Market Realities," was conducted by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity using employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Student-loan programs and federal assistance programs are based on some sort of implicit assumption that we're training people for the jobs of the future," says Richar Vedder, director of the center and a professor emeritus at Ohio University. "In reality, a lot of them are not."

The study found that the proportion of over-educated workers is on the rise. In 1970, less than 1% of taxi drivers and 2% of firefighters held college degrees. Today, over 15% do in each profession. Moreover, five million college graduates are now in jobs that don’t even require a high school diploma.

Kristopher Del Campo, 23 and a senior majoring in psychology at DePaul University, says that many of his classmates fear today’s dismal job market and are instead opting for graduate school, which will make them even more overqualified for jobs...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: economy; employment; immigration; underemployment; unemployment
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21 posted on 02/11/2013 8:57:38 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“The best design engineers are folks that started repairing hardware.”

The best engineers are the hot rodders of the 40s and50s.

If you wanted to go fast, you had to design it and then build it and then modify it until you had a record holder.

When our generation is dead and gone there won’t be anyone left with the ability to design and build from scratch.

We’re dying off fast and i’m glad I won’t be around to see the results!


22 posted on 02/11/2013 9:01:52 PM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

You can’t find tool and die makers anymore.


23 posted on 02/11/2013 9:03:46 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
You can’t find tool and die makers anymore.

Is there enough demand for it to make it profitable?

24 posted on 02/11/2013 9:14:53 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

There will be when the SHTF.


25 posted on 02/11/2013 9:16:12 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: OneWingedShark

“Is there enough demand for it to make it profitable? “

A good one can make well over $100K, and never be out of work.


26 posted on 02/11/2013 9:20:13 PM PST by dalereed
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To: OneWingedShark

Yes.
Many folks are looking for them.


27 posted on 02/11/2013 9:24:56 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Yes.
Many folks are looking for them.

Makes me wish I had a bit more experience [and training] with mechanical things.

28 posted on 02/11/2013 9:44:03 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: dalereed
>“Is there enough demand for it to make it profitable? “


A good one can make well over $100K, and never be out of work

Really? That'd be nice; to bad I have neither the skill nor the money needed to start an operation up.

29 posted on 02/11/2013 9:45:12 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Welders are in demand too.


30 posted on 02/11/2013 9:48:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Five Million College Grads in Jobs that Don't Require a High School Diploma

Well, we know that the jobs don't come with the phrase "Welcome to Walmart" because Walmarts have eliminated the store greeters. So, they must have jobs that come with the phrase "You want fries with that?"

31 posted on 02/11/2013 9:57:16 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: mylife

Well said.


32 posted on 02/11/2013 10:00:38 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: OneWingedShark

You can pick up decent trades with relative ease.

http://www.thefabricator.com/article/consumables/examining-the-finer-points-of-6010-6011-and-7018


33 posted on 02/11/2013 10:09:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Welders are in demand too.

I'd probably end up immolating myself... :/

34 posted on 02/11/2013 10:11:53 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I’ve done that. LOL
At least partially.


35 posted on 02/11/2013 10:14:49 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: freekitty

“Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have! But they have one thing you haven’t got - a diploma.”

There it is, right there.


36 posted on 02/11/2013 10:43:54 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

High learning is a good thing.
But many a man was taught by high minded professors that he must think within “the box of dreams”

Global warming is a fine example.
Empirical evidence is dismissed out of hand.


37 posted on 02/11/2013 10:55:40 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Everything before “but” is BS. You’re not presenting much of a case for High Learning.


38 posted on 02/11/2013 11:22:09 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

High learning is fine, Many a Texas rancher has read Kipling and Socrates.

The notion that a piece of paper from a 3rd party makes one man more educated than the other is folly.


39 posted on 02/11/2013 11:27:40 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: dr_lew

What I find with most higher education is that it teaches people to work within taught parameters that reflect the teacher.
Many of our academics are brain washers, more than teachers

Oh they teach the math, but that is not what they emphasize.
They emphasis systems of thought.

Indoctrination

We will take the 2nd amendment for example.
Liberal college “perfessors” will dote over what the meaning of is, “Is” by citing the passage about a well armed “militia” while ignoring personal communiques on the 2nd amendment by the authors of the 2nd that clarify the matter with certainty.

If you dare challenge them they say the evidence can not be considered as it is not part of the Amendment, it is simply a personal letter.

Bah!!


40 posted on 02/11/2013 11:39:43 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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