Don’t enroll for useless degrees...?
The NYT should expect a very strongly worded letter of outrage from the Dept of Gender Studies.
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.
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.
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.
Be confident that your courses will provide knowledge for employment: manufacturing, commerce etc.,
Many students follow their ‘hearts’ into courses that fascinate or seduce them; which is fine and may provide employment (teaching others;)
One word. Engineering
Increasingly, I think it is imperative that young college students learn how to do something as opposed to merely learning about something.
Learn plumbing.
Noticed in some govt. future employment prospects that this field is no longer listed as an up and coming career like it was a decade ago.
Biomedical Technician - work in lots of places.
Civil Eng. work in many places. Accounting.......... work anywhere.
1) take a course in speed reading
2) take a course in typing
3) Learn how to write a report in Word
4) Learn how to build a spreadsheet
5) Learn how to make and present a presentation