Posted on 09/30/2019 8:43:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hey, college kids, whether you’re a freshman or a returning junior, the first few weeks of festivities are now over. It’s time to focus on why you’re in school in the first place: to get a job.
You’re at college to make yourself as qualified as possible for your future, so pick your major wisely. There is great demand in numerous fields, and weak demand in many others.
And while the economy is very good, it’s still hard to find entry-level jobs right out of school.
Andrea Colabella, co-founder of the Cardea Group, a Manhattan-based recruitment firm focusing on alternative asset management, advises, “So much has changed through technology, and we only expect that to continue to happen. Pick a major that has some exposure to a growth area — engineering, computer science, law, etc.”
Computer and software engineering are in very high demand. Big data means big bucks. Nursing and health tech both pay very well.
Want to study a language? Forget Latin, study computer language. Very few people in the workforce know how to write even simple code.
Being proficient in Python, Java, C++ and other languages will get you not only a job, but a good paycheck, too.
Even if you go for finance or marketing, you’d better learn how to code and create data analytics, or it will be rough out there.
Technology in general is becoming more integral every day at every company, large and small. You’d better get tech-savvy at a relatively advanced level to compete in today’s workforce.
Make it a point early on to get involved with the college’s career development center. The first semester of your freshman year is not too soon.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Don’t enroll for useless degrees...?
The NYT should expect a very strongly worded letter of outrage from the Dept of Gender Studies.
Oops - NYP.
Really? That seems self-contradictory, unless there's no connection between graduating from college and qualifying for an "entry-level job."
Maybe I don't understand the writer's definition of "entry-level job." One of my sons is assistant manager at a restaurant, even though he hasn't graduated from college with his (potentially useful someday ...) Environmental Science degree. A daughter who lost interest in college (before much money was spent on it) is a full-time baker for Panera.
They make you take some useless courses. They call them non-technical electives. Things like anthropology and philosophy.
“Forget Latin, study computer language. Very few people in the workforce know how to write even simple code.”
When I worked in computers, I found that those who had studied Latin and Greek made very good programmers. I also hired a guy who had a graduate degree in Slavic linguistics - he did very well.
Enroll in a community college and work part time the first 2 years.
Don’t enroll for useless degrees...? aka Instant Unemployement Degrees, IUDs.
Avoid 5-7 year programs loaded with bs courses, which have zippo relation to the degree. Courses that provide jobs to worthless professors and sell a lot of worthless text books.
Stay away from Marxist indoctrination centers.
Find a good Christian school that still provides education.
Heh, not studing “useless courses” will eliminate roughly 90% of the courses currently offered in most universities.
95% in the ivy leagues.
Hardcore philosophy is just as technical as C++, and just as tough. A lot of the recent work has some interesting convergences with high-level computing theory.
The first thing a graduate in “Ethnic Studies” says on the job.
“Would you like fries with that order”?
Being proficient in Python, Java, C++ and other languages will get you not only a job, but a good paycheck, too.
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With the above skills you too can learn the joy of training your H1B visa replacement for your former job.
You mean getting a PHd in White Privilege Identification Studies won’t be worth all that much?
This contradicts the exhortation earlier in the article to concentrate on engineering, math, and computer programming, advice which really needed a qualification: they're hard and they take a sort of work that not everybody enjoys or is good at (and those are not the same thing). Coding, for one - it used to be a great entry level job but guess what? Good coders are rare and it's hard work with a high burnout rate. The notion that anyone can code may be technically true in the sense that anyone can do heart surgery but you probably don't want "anyone" doing yours.
The cruel fact is that the majority of people doing the majority of work aren't involved in something they passionately love, they're involved in an opportunity they found that pays well enough to keep body and soul together and a roof over their heads. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because it turns out that one way to learn to hate something you used to love is to do it for a living. There is, fortunately, a flip side to that: one way to learn to love something you didn't is to do it for a living, too.
I enjoy inspiring young people with my own example: look at me, this is your future, old and wrinkled and yelling at clouds and driving in the fast lane at 40 mph with my turn signal on. This is the face of success, kids! Strangely, I never seem to be invited back as a motivational speaker...
And then you have to compete with 125K H-B visa wage slaves coming in PER YEAR. The Slimy Senate is trying to pass the "Fairness to High Skilled Immigrants" act right now to under cut our kids and their futures.
The best thing that could happen to the American workforce of all wage levels would be to end LEGAL immigration for 50 years. There is no labor shortage. That’s BS. Wages are up but so depressed for 30 years the increases today are a pittance.
“They call them non-technical electives. Things like anthropology and philosophy.”
Some of that is fine. Western Civ, basic biology and chemistry certainly contribute to a well rounded education. Transgender poetry and queer studies, no so much.
LOL!
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