Posted on 01/05/2015 1:12:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
She works at a grocery store now.
I have been drilling into my two young kids the need to have a meaningful degree such as an engineering degree like I have. I'm not sure how it is now for new grads in Electrical Engineering, but when I was just a junior, we were already getting approached by recruiters.
My big ones are speak understandable English and a history of not job hopping.
One of the current trends for a certain H1B visa holders (which I do not hire) is to work at a place for 18 months or so then move on to another area. Basically taking a tour of the country if you watch the trends of employment history.
Don’t worry, President Obama has seen to it that illegals will fill those IT skills nicely. No more shortage! Yippee!
My daughter scored 35 on her ACT, and wants to be a history teacher.
I have no doubt that she will excel at whatever she does, but it seems like a little waste of potential to me. But I want her to be happy.
Objective-C???
I’d hoped Swift superseded that. If .Net his hot then what are you programming it with? Does it program itself?
Doesn’t sound like the recruiters are too swift.
My youngest son got a job offer 2 weeks before he graduated with his EE degree from NIU last year.
Oh well...at least it's still in the top ten.
We bring in EE interns every summer along with CE’s and usually wind up hiring the best of the best every year.
Beware that a lot of IT firms will hire young twenty somethings on salary (no overtime), work them 60 hours/week, then dump them when they hit 30 and/or get a spouse and family, and then hire the next batch.
Maybe not really a waste of potential—hopefully, she’s a conservative who will educate the “yutes of America” to appreciate our history and heritage. If the public schools are too hostile an environment, possibly a private school would be more receptive. She could also earn extra money tutoring but ultimately, she might teach at a college like Hillsdale or Grove City.
Theater arts, ugh. If that’s her main love then that’s great she went to school for it, but tell her she cannot go to school JUST for that because she is getting into an industry where she all but guaranteed to be unemployed for decades or employed where she can barely survive. Actors, performers are a dime a dozen, not even, more like a half a penny for a million. I tell kids today you have to focus on two things: MONEY first and foremost and then second what you love to do because you can’t do the latter without the first unless it’s some industry you love that makes you money. They don’t realize money is freedom that lets you do what you want otherwise most of your time will be enslaved to doing something you don’t want to do and that wastes the most valuable commodity of all: Time. I knew SOOOO many people like that when I lived in New York city who wasted their lives away in that situation. Tell her to do research and research and focus on those skill that are highly in demand and do whatever it takes to master them otherwise she’ll find herself in her 50s still working at that grocery store. Democrats LOVE people like her because they eventually become dependent on the government. But if she goes to school now and gets in demand skills she will be thanking God later on when she gets older.
For parents who can afford it and/or for students who are so inclined—what about the possibility of two degrees—one in a subject that’s of great interest but not with good employment prospects and another in an area that has better prospects for employment—my own choice would (have been) history and Electrical Engineering and I know I don’t have the smarts for EE. I also realize that this could take upwards of six years in school
Your incredibly hurtful microaggressive shaming of non-profitable academic pursuits is indicative of your privileged alignment with the bourgeois capitalist-supressive establishment.
Good advice—I can’t disagree.
I am glad that I that I escaped the public TV plantation and learned to fix computers back in 1999. I would still be making nothing since I wasn’t a member of the elite liberal circle assuming that I wasn’t laid off.
Granted it took a few years to finally see an actual payoff but a couple years ago, a contract gig in help desk turned into a good full time thing.
No mention of ASP.NET?
I can confirm this. I’m in chronic demand. I could quit today and be employed again within under a month most likely making more money if it took that long.
.net was mentioned. Their biggest category was worthless. Obama wrote a program. I seen it on the TV.
uhhh....those are pretty broad categories, and most likely would be the Top 10 ANY year.
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