> Ph.D. in medieval history
That’s all you need to know right there.
Single mothers with worthless degrees. Blame republicans rather than asking themselves where the problem might be. It is high time to stop subsidizing public universities.
Cutting some 30,000 college students off food stamps was one of the first good things Rick Snyder did in Michigan.
Granholm gave them to every college student. Even millionaire trust fund babies and full scholarship students.
No one is stopping them from applying for the custodian jobs. Perhaps if they are so smart, they should have gotten degrees in areas for which there will be jobs in the marketplace.
She’s got at best a half-time job!
Find at least another half-time job and stop complaining!
Well, I’d need to meet these guys or know more about them to be sure, but they all sound like decent people who went into this line of work and studied hard because it’s what they wanted to do in life.
Nothing wrong with medieval history. Everyone should have basic history and literature courses—ancient history, medieval, Renaissance, etc., as well as whatever their specialty is. One of our problems today is that no one is taught our history any longer, or where our civilization came from. Erase the past, and brainwash the peons.
The thing is that these guys are being relegated to part-time status with no hope of tenure or decent pay. The permanent faculty who treat them like this probably specialize in gender-bending and mind-washing, and won’t give these guys a chance at tenure because they’re too conservative and insufficiently politically correct.
Why do they have to point out that she’s a “white woman” in the second paragraph? Isn’t that racist?
All of these leeches can go to hell.
If you want to get an advanced degree in Middle English, I applaud your scholarship, but it’s not my job to support you! Get a job in academia. If you can’t find one, learn to do something that will fill your belly.
if you get a degree in a field where the only opportunities are in teaching (perpetuating a dead subject), if you intend to pursue this as a career the field must be either expanding, or the incumbents must be quitting. either way, even if you DID land that teaching job, next years graduates will be looking to unseat you.
when we stopped going to college for a career, and began that lofty ‘to improve ourselves’ motivation, things started going south.
Part-time college instructors only make a pittance with no benefits—the key being no benefits—something brought about by tight state budgets and now to be exacerbated by Obamacare.
Several years ago I was offered a part-time position to teach a college course. The pay was $26 per class meeting, twice weekly. As the campus was on the other side of town, the gas expense would take a chunk of that. Besides class preparation, time spent grading and writing student reviews would make the wage less attractive than a part-time job at Wendy’s. Already employed full-time, I declined the “honor”, not only because of the poor pay but I had burned out on teaching these entry level courses in my youth.
I had a computer science professor tell me one time that if I studied hard and got good grades, then went out and got a job and some experience, I could be like him making over 75K per year.
Before I could catch myself, I blurted out “But I can’t afford that much of a pay cut”. The professor went purple with indignation.
I had a computer science professor tell me one time that if I studied hard and got good grades, then went out and got a job and some experience, I could be like him making over 75K per year.
Before I could catch myself, I blurted out “But I can’t afford that much of a pay cut”. The professor went purple with indignation.
If you’re working part time, get a second job. With a degree you don’t HAVE to be a teacher.. There’s plenty of options. I studied music in college, and wish I could do that full time, but it doesn’t pay the bills, so I sit at a desk, don’t like my job.. But it’s pretty secure, pays the bills, and I have pretty good benefits.
I also work part time at a bar to pay for my toys. It’s not a great living, but I’ll never have to take a penny of government assistance.
Here’s a handy little guide for all the prospective college students out there.
I WANT TO LIVE = I NEED FOOD = I NEED MONEY = I NEED A JOB = I NEED JOB SKILLS = I NEED TRAINING IN JOB SKILLS
Nothing wrong with an education, but you need to be alive to receive an education.
She should have gone into administration at the college. That seems to be where the money is.
I kept reading and re-reading the article, looking for the underemployed engineers who are on the dole.
Couldn’t find any.
Funny thing, that.
Here’s the irony: there are hundreds of thousands of jobs that need technical skills and a willingness to get dirty that are going unfilled — and many of those jobs start at $18 to $20/hour. With bennies.
These soft-as-butter liberal arts people need to get out into the real world and open their eyes. Liberal arts degrees are USELESS for supporting a family unless you hold a tenured professorship at some big-name university. Then you can pull down some comfy bucks. But to teach at a community college or something similar? There’s dozens of similarly useless people in the line for the job behind you, so the wages will conform to the laws of supply and demand. There’s an infinite supply of scribblers with liberal arts degrees out there... and a dawning realization by the American economy that these degrees are without merit or economic potential.
Better to get a two-year degree in welding and hit the oilfields.