They voted for Obama in record numbers... they got what they voted for, hype and loose change in their pockets.
Hey, I resent the inference of bad jobs. My son has been practicing “Do you want fries with that?” since his freshman year.
Lowly rewards in nirvana-world for that high priced liberal education dear kids. Still clinging to the demoRats sweet socialist songs of hope?
It could be worse, he could have graduated from an other-than-top-level LAW SCHOOL. Go look up “law school scam”.
I graduated in 1992. The job market sucked then, too. We were coming out of recession, but many companies weren’t hiring.
I don’t see that we’re coming out of anything right now. Companies aren’t spending because they see good things on the horizon, but because they have to.
Obama babies are hitting the street looking for jobs. A dose of reality might be good for them.
I spent my time at UCLA preparing for the outside world. I had internships in congressional offices, political action committees, non-profits and even as a personal intern to a successful venture capitalist. These weren't the run-of-the-mill office internships; I worked in marketing, press relations, research and analysis. Additionally, the mayor and city council of my hometown appointed me to serve on two citywide governing bodies, the planning commission and the open government commission.
A Poli Sci major from UCLA. Now there's a useful degree.
I used to think that given my experience, finding work after graduation would be easy.
Open your eyes, you nitwit. And try thinking for yourself. Look for something in which there is a demand.
Guess what. When I graduated college with a Chemistry degree in 1992 I also got a low paying job. 24K per year. I lived with three other guys in an apartment to cut costs and slowly worked my way to higher paying jobs along the way.
It wasn’t easy, but I wasn’t expecting to make 60K a year when I graduated. I saved my pennies and never got myself in debt. That means no credit cards, new car etc. Every extra dollar paid off my college loans.
The kids these days think they will graduate and instantly start out at 50K. Here’s my advice. Work hard, keep your whining to a minimum and make yourself a valuable employee. The opportunities will come, but you have to pay your dues.
Hey THEY voted for the Cretin in office right now.
REAP IT.
The Young and the Restless Stupid.
How's all that Hope'y, Change'y, work'n out for ya?
The student loan scam has enabled colleges and universities to raise their tuition at rates about 3 times the rate of inflation and they have done that consistently for the past 20 years. With all that “free” student loan money, no one forced fiscal discipline on these schools. The tenured faculty enjoyed unwarranted raises, and there was plenty left over to hire graduate students and adjunct faculty to do the onerous tasks of actually teaching the courses. Life was good for everyone but the student. But since the students could expect to cash in after graduation, no one cared.
Well, its time to pay the piper. The entitled class needs to be rocked back on their heels and put in their place. If they can’t offer a product that students and parents are willing to pay for, then they need to go away, the faster the better.
If they do happen to get a job, they'll enter a greedy meat grinder, where they'll work without raises, and be offered phony incentives, and stupid prizes in lieu of deserved raises...They'll be threatened daily, if they don't work harder for less, they'll be fired.
Good luck in today's workplace!
Having a law degree could be even worse. When my son took the bar exam in Minnesota he was one of nearly 700 prospective lawyers. He was lucky to land a clerk job with an Appeals Court and then got hired by a large firm in Minneapolis. Many of his law school classmates are still struggling to find jobs. His current position is probably a growing law specialty thanks to Obama...corporate bankruptcy.
What utter snobbery. What an entitlement mentality. For decades the smarmy little college students have voted for the marxist party and openly supported the destruction of America. And now your chickens are coming home to roost. A college student should be able to think and reason. But not most of you folks. What little fools you really are.
So, to fix things:
First - admit, once and for all, that a college degree (with some exceptions) is what a high school diploma was a 30 years ago - an indication that one can read and do arithmetic.
Second - Tell those kids, congratulations, we know you can read and do arithmetic. We can give you a low-skill job (like retail sales, office filing, etc.) OR you can go back to school and learn a skill (such as welding, electrical work, plumbing, auto repair). At the same time, audit every employer and KICK OUT THE ILLEGALS, who, whether we like it or not, are often much better skilled than Americans...at least in those types of trades.
Third - Give the kids in high school that actually did learn something a chance to show it by taking some real-world tests. If they do well on those tests, treat it as a CED - College Equivalency Degree - and require employers who demand a college degree to accept it as an equivalent, for those low-skilled jobs.
Forth - Tell today’s high school students that they have to choose one of the following options:
a) Go to college for a professional degree (medicine, engineering, or hard science) and be eligible for loans and grants;
b) Go to college for a soft degree (psych, linguistics, history, poly sci) and come up with the money yourself;
c) Go to trade school / community college for useful field (the trades, nursing, pre-engineering), and be eligible for aid;
d) Go to trade school / community college for useless field and pay your own way;
e) Don’t go to college, but get your CED, so employers know that you’re not a total air head;
f) Don’t go to college and don’t get a CED...and roll the dice.
Yeah but like OMG, like whatever, like we are like going to make like history and like change things. Like, OMG. Whatever.
America is as South America was in my youth. The South American middle class had no opportunity, due to lack of a productive economy, so everyone was an attorney, journalist or governmental hack. The American leadership class, with a generous assist from a degenerate populace, have so fouled up our economy that we now have an economy where the middle class will produce attorneys, journalists and governmental hacks. America ‘s economy will probably never recover.
Liberal arts degree isn’t the answer.
Kyle Daley:
“A little over a month ago, I went to the beach, put my resume in a bottle and threw it into the Pacific Ocean. No, I hadn’t seen an ad on Craigslist from Poseidon looking for a new assistant; I felt that this attempt might be my only chance of becoming gainfully employed.”
“I’m an unpaid intern who made a short documentary about unpaid internships.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kyle-daley/kyle-unemployed-19-months_b_646966.html