Lousy Degrees.
Crappy Ass Crackers
Great jobs were not exactly plentiful in 1971.
Damned transgender pottery industry tanked.....who coulda seen that comin?
I recently talked with a man at a graduation party. He told me about his son, majoring in gender studies and poetry. I asked him how this kid expected to get a job with that. He looked at me and said “The boy told me that once he graduates there will be many companies that will pay him what he’s worth.”. We both just stood silent shaking our heads. Then I asked why was he paying for it. He basically started to cry so I slinked away.
You have to work a while to be successful, life's tough that way Grads.
Maybe because the longer one is in school and is not actually producing something economically viable the more likely they are to become a whinny liberal who feel they are entitled to cash and prizes just for being so sensitive and morally pure. And yet they are of no practical use to society. Weird how all that liberal philosophy, debt, drunkenness and fornication would not prepare one for business and life. But I bet they rock on Halo and call of duty not to mention facebook.
How many voted Obama?
degrees in worthless fields and specialties. degrees in already-over-saturated fields. degrees in areas where paying your dues by working up a ladder is part of being in that line of work.
The whole college sales pitch is that education and not hard work is the key to success. Now if you just paid $50 - 100k for your education you probably don’t want to accept a position that “anyone” could apply. I blame employers who do no mentor these students during college or after graduation. It’s easier to hire illegals and go offshore that to develop talent, The same employers often complain that there are not enough skilled workers, Maybe education needs to partner with business, But education doesn’t see themselves as making workers skilled.....
lousy degrees lead to lousy (if any) jobs
it is really that simple.
students who are going to college for job preparation ... should take job-prep majors like engineering or nursing.
students who just take sociology and ethnic studies and cultural anthropology and, worst of all, “community organizing” (whatever the hell that is), render themselves unemployable.
and if pushed for an honest answer, the very same students would have to admit that They wouldn’t hire themselves, either
they bring nothing of any value to the workplace
The mistake is in thinking that a good formal education automatically entitles someone to a good job.
It doesn’t and shouldn’t. A good education merely means that you are educated.
Having received a formal education, you should now expect to go to work on the shop floor and learn some business from the ground up. That is the real education that will build on your formal education and give it meaning. You’ve got a degree in Medieval French Literature? Great. Now get to work oiling the machinery and in a few years, if you’re smart, you may wind up running this place. Or not.
This is an important article but you have to read between the lines. On the surface, it seems to be making excuses for a bad economic environment by telling new graduates that, hey, its not so bad, this is pretty typical.
In truth, it IS bad. If you have huge percentages of grads not working up to the preparation they have paid for and devoted valuable time to achieving, then it is a big loss for the grad and for the economy as a whole. Government has, tragically, played its part in weakening opportunities. No bright, hard-working person should have to worry about finding something to do that supports him or her.
If you encourage studies in fields that don’t generate a paying job, you are failing a student. This happens a lot in universities where kids, who don’t have the best math and communication skills when they enter college, search for a major that they can handle. They are often told by university personnel to find something they like to do—they don’t know what they like to do because they don’t have any adult work experience. So, they choose something that is comfortable or interesting to study. They then take classes in stuff that is not practical and get socialized into the people and field of study. It becomes hard to leave it as it would take a long time to make up for lost studies in more practical majors. The result is a person who wasted years studying something that offers no paying future.
Enslave the graduate with huge college bills...have a tax slave for life...
People getting degrees now are foolish...
best to start working at 16, by 21 do something well that you love, by 30 be a small business owner...without all the college debt...and with working off the radar, able to barter and make a living without being taxed to death...
Philosophy
Gender studies
Theatre
Poli Sci
French Literature
Shall i continue?
Most come right out of college with nothing but a liberal education and cannot survive. Most are useless because of attitude in the real working world.
A common predicament among recent college grads is the difficulty finding professional work that matches their qualifications.
I’m an old gal who has been around the private sector all my life. My experience is that most recent college grads are not qualified for much of anything until they get some work experience under their belt and prove themselves in more areas than the area they studied.
Employers often look for other qualities in individuals, qualities that can make or break a company. Often it’s not your smarts but other traits that count.
We have thousands of smart people running our country and look at the mess.
It’s tough for a young person to enter the job market when old people aren’t able to retire. The new system seems to be to take your retirement in your twenties and thirties and then work until you’re in your nineties.