Posted on 04/24/2012 9:32:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I saw the original story posted on Yahoo, in the Finance section. If you follow the links, you might find that Michael Bledsoe, the hold of the “creative writing” degree in the article above, shows more creativity in his choice of jewelry as well: he sports a nose ring and ear “lobe” rings. Combine his “personal style” choices with a “creative writing” degree, and he’ll continue to work as a barista for the forseeable future.
So what are the hordes of American workers that cannot find jobs supposed to do?
What else, move back home with Mom and Pop.
“I just can’t figure out how this could have happened to me. “
Oh, right...I voted for Obama!
“I prefer denying student loans or finacial aid for non-science degrees. If you want to major in “women’s studies” you can pay for it out of your own pocket and not the taxpayers since you will probably never earn enough to pay it off.”
Very good idea - and it would work, too. What a tantrum the marxist left would throw!
Exactly. The crime is the fraud being perpetrated byy these institutions that charge $50,000/yr to confer degrees in womyn’s studies, post-modern cultural deconstruction and puppeteering.
These kids are being advised to go back for more education. What they needed from the beginning was the right education - in a skill and field that someone would find useful.
Were I to be hiring right now (and I’m not) I’d toss every resume’ that came to me with one of these useless degrees. Why would anyone knowingly hire a grievance factory?
Some of these college administrators and fair part of their faculties should frankly be in jail for conning these kids.
Yup. Graduated in ‘90 with a computer engineering degree, spent the next 1.5 years doing telephone-based tech support. Market sucked then too; wasn’t dead-end, but was “underemployed” given the degree. In no way did I blame the degree, in no way did I whine and moan; that was the reality of the job market at the time, I got what I could and did what I could with it.
A degree is Gladwell’s “10,000 hours” packaged and certified; it’s no guarantee of anything. If suitable jobs aren’t out there, having a piece of paper won’t create one.
Well, students... you WERE warned, were you not?
But nooooooo... your little pea brains submerged themselves in the initially comforting but ultimately toxic juices of “Hope and Change.”
And, the amazing thing is... you’ll be back for more in November.
One of the interesting things I have been seeing lately is that the most successful graduates from the Upper Education System aka UES, are those who graduate with little or NO Education loan Debts. Also they are the ones who entered in to the UES having a good idea of where they wanted to be in five or so years.
Also it REALLY helps to have some “life Experience” aka a job and or Service time in the armed forces to give the prospective student an idea of what an education can do for you rather than go into the UES with only a vague idea about your end goals other than partying.
Not much use for the “skills” one gets from the humanities, liberal arts or anything ending in “studies”. That’s got to account for most of them.
I don’t mind schools offering these types of courses, but like “fast food” you should not make it your primary diet.
Look at what you buy, see where it is made and you will understand that the solution is for our employees to get the same pay and benefits as in China. Also have Corporations pay the same tax rates and the Nation live with the same environmental laws as China. But before getting the available work, you would have to be proficient in Chinese. You might not have to relocate.
Only around 55% are unemployed? Seems 95% are uneducated. Suprised the other 40% even found jobs.
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