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.
Tragic. That kid sounds like a total lost cause.
many companies that will pay him what he’s worth.”
My father used to tell me that I was only worth what my employer was willing to pay me. Of course, he was born in 1898 and had lived through lots of years of very hard times. As far back as I can remember he always had two full time jobs until he died in 1975 plus we had a small farm.
L Who does the kid think he is? Peter Pan?
Actually, there will be many companies that will pay him more than what he's worth. We call it "minimum wage."
Gender studies AND poetry? Wow--I'm impressed that he took on the extra workload to get two useless degress.
My son who just finished his feshman year of college. He filled out over 20 applications for summer work and only got 2 interviews. 1 at subway and 1 at church. Subway said he wasn’t qualified because he didn’t have experience.
He was an honor grad frim a top private high school. He had very high ACT and an AP scholar. He’s an economics major at Texas A&M with good grades.
Thank goodness a positioned opened up at my husband’s social media start up company, and my son is doing work for them. My husband says my son is dong great, and they are hoping he can continue working for them while he’s at college.