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Nearly Half of US College Graduates Working High-School Level Jobs, Survey Finds
Epoch Times ^ | 2/24/2024 | Patricia Tolson

Posted on 02/25/2024 3:29:52 PM PST by george76

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1 posted on 02/25/2024 3:29:52 PM PST by george76
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This is why trade schools are better than universities.


2 posted on 02/25/2024 3:31:34 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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They’re lucky. They don’t have high school level educations.


3 posted on 02/25/2024 3:32:29 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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A low-IQ person with a college degree remains a low-IQ person.

But colleges happily take the money and leave taxpayers with the student loan debt.

Need to make colleges pay.


4 posted on 02/25/2024 3:34:28 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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Avoid wasting tons of money and time for a useless studies degree.


5 posted on 02/25/2024 3:34:29 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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At least they’re working.


6 posted on 02/25/2024 3:34:45 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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Graduate or not, there are plenty who want to fight.

And by chance, there are plenty of wars - overseas - where such emancipated youti’s can pick a side and get all the fighting they need . . . and then some.


7 posted on 02/25/2024 3:35:07 PM PST by linMcHlp
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Colleges these days usually make you stupider.

Best to get right out into the workforce after high school and see how the real world works. With the bonus of no student loans.

8 posted on 02/25/2024 3:35:19 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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52 percent of college graduates are underemployed a year after graduation. Even 10 years after graduation, 45 percent of college graduates remain underemployed.


9 posted on 02/25/2024 3:35:39 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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That is exactly right.


10 posted on 02/25/2024 3:36:08 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Half of college graduates have high school level skills.


11 posted on 02/25/2024 3:38:27 PM PST by glorgau
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That’s what my granddaughter did. She works at a hot dog place and she likes what she is doing.


12 posted on 02/25/2024 3:39:04 PM PST by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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Much of the emphasis on college degrees was a reaction to curbs on aptitude testing which was considered discriminatory.


13 posted on 02/25/2024 3:40:07 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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Meanwhile the leftist colleges, Administrators and professors who overcharged the students (or US taxpayers) for subpar education get to roll on quite nicely enjoying the benefits of a mostly capitalist society. Hypocrites n propagandists, the leftard way.


14 posted on 02/25/2024 3:40:58 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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I look for:
Curiosity
Conceptual thinking
Creativity
15 posted on 02/25/2024 3:43:02 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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What’s a “college level job”?


16 posted on 02/25/2024 3:43:09 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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That’s because most of these colleges graduate students that are dumber than when they went in.


17 posted on 02/25/2024 3:43:47 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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My kids’ babysitter goes to community college and makes $35,000 a year at a daycare. I know someone with a Master’s degree who makes less than that after going to an expensive private high school, college and graduate school.

So what’s all that fancy education for?


18 posted on 02/25/2024 3:47:05 PM PST by packagingguy
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My BIL’s stepson went to vocation school for a/c training about 30 yrs ago. Had no trouble finding a job, and made good money. After about 10 yrs he started his own a/c business, and made a lot of money. Bought some apartments and sold the A/c business to one of his employees. He is very well off, and fairly young (early 50’s). People with skills, a good work ethic, and some common sense can still achieve the American dream.


19 posted on 02/25/2024 3:49:46 PM PST by Rlsau1
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Majority are women in oversaturated / useless degrees. Given that women hold the large majority of student loans and higher percentage going to college.

This is what the whole democrat loan forgiveness is, a gift to these women to keep voting democrat.


20 posted on 02/25/2024 3:50:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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