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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You're drifting. The first time around you averred that the teaching of the "high minded professors" was actually deleterious.
Now you see, right there, you should have said ... "is", is ... you see? you see? ...
Don't put words in my mouth...
“The simple fact is that a lot of the jobs that require a college degree, really don’t. Seems that a good many college degrees are more a means of keeping professors employed than anything.”
especially true in graphic design. you don’t need a master’s degree to teach intro any graphics software. rather have a teacher with no degree and 5 years experience in the software. most graphic design degree requirements are so artists who can’t make a living selling crap they call art can get a job. i have been to cherry creek arts festival and wouldn’t buy 40% of the stuff and would have to be paid to put another 40% of the stuff in my house. remaining 20% is quite good and i have bought some in the past.
When it comes to art, its no longer about quality, its about ideology.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2987705/posts?page=25#25
I’m not going to trust a brain surgeon with OJT
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Actually brain surgery and most others is mostly OJT
I wondered about that as I haven't seen the familiar old faces lately.
Maybe not financial suicide, but prices surely will go up to compensate for the increased losses. When I was a night stocker, they did away with night-time greeters and we started to have flat screens by the handful walk out of the store. In one case, the state police stopped a car for some reason and returned three screens to us that had gone out the door just minutes before.
There's a great line from "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" that goes something like this:
A bunch of doctors are operating on a guy's brain when one starts probing with his finger. The Top Man says, "No, no, no! Don't touch that! You don't know what it may be connected to!"
Oddly enough, in a lapse of logic I will never understand, around the same time that Walmart ended having store greeters, they also said that they would not pursue any shoplifters boosting anything below a value of $300.
And, people wonder why Walmart is about to lose its discounter rating because of their price hikes!
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