Want a Guaranteed Job After College? Study This

Fiscal Times ^ | 01/20/2012 | Kirsten Hayes

[Antoninus II]

Duh!!

[central_va]

The current crop of unemployed graduates may be unemployed because they studied history or Ethnic Women’s Literature,

There is never a good time to study literature in college. That is a hobby not a career.

[FreedomPoster]

Regarding the 80s oil bust - in the Winter of ‘82 I had an offer letter for $29.9k/yr from Exxon to go to Houston, a princely sum for a wet behind the ears newly-graduated engineer in those days.

Best job I never took. I got a Graduate Research Assitanceship and stayed for a Masters degree. Later that Summer/Fall, the oil bust hit. I’d have been sitting in Houston with an apartment lease and no job, and would have had to break the lease and scramble for a job somewhere.

[ottbmare]

There is never a good time to study literature in college. That is a hobby not a career.

You are making the assumption that colleges and universities are only trade schools, rather than institutions to advance the sciences and preserve Western Civilization. It was only recently that we began to regard them as places to acquire job skills. From roughly 1088, when the University of Bologna was founded, until about 35 years ago, they were intended to develop the intellect, not to guarantee a job.