Posted on 01/16/2021 9:17:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The obvious summary: because they take degrees that aren’t worth anything.
Because the degrees are worthless?
Too many baby boomers, who also have college degrees, who are able to work until they are 80 years old and have no intent on retiring, preventing jobs from opening up.
Not that I’m blaming baby boomers per se, but if all the jobs in a sector of the economy have been taken, they aren’t hiring.
That, immigration and outsourcing have really made the push for people to go to college a colossal misfire.
That as well, for sure.
Degrees like “Black Lesbian Dance Theory for White Transgendered Men”. While this degree does not really exist, it points to the useless crap in any Social degree holder you find. The best advice you can give a Social degree is to remember “Do you want fries with that?”
to the author:
not all degrees are equal
not everyone does as well in their studies
not all the jobs pay tge same salary
My son had a ex-girlfriend who got her bachelors in Social Services. She works in a warehouse because she discovered Social Workers dont make sh!t.
When a dull-normal student takes out huge loans for a degree in Transgender and Racial Environmental Justice, he/she belongs working at a McDonald’s drive through. There are too many ridiculous, meaningless college majors that are being offered.
Colleges don’t educate people anymore. They indoctrinate them.
That started decades ago and has only gotten worse.
I have a niece who is 34 years old and has been taking college courses since she was 20. She says she wants to get a PhD in Spanish literature. That will take her at least another five years. At best, she might find a low-paying part-time “adjunct professor” job.
Circa 1966 graduated from high school oddly number one the ACT tests. Two years later most deservedly flunked out of college. I did go back to obtain a degree in geology but also took much chemistry as electives. 17 years later in the oil field I went back to school again. I became a pharmacist.
We live in an great nation.
Here in Hollywood, we had a young employee who was more “trained” in graphic design than another 3-year grad from Art Institute. Had ALL Adobe programs mastered to a degree than the other guys in the same dept. The hiring guy didnt say anything why he was hired. During the Christmas party, one of our senior guys asked him which college he graduated from and he said he didn’t. The only thing he said was College of Pirate Bay and Youtube”
What he did was download the bootleg versions off Pirate Bay, watched on youtube how to do graphic design, learned the programs manually and sent in his portfolio.
Yes, the cost of the degree has no relation to the calibre of the individual or of any real understanding, ability or ‘education’ received.
Businesses don’t generally hire ‘degrees’; they hire individuals.
(Case in point: AOC has a University degree, and can barely utter a single complex sentence sensibly...)
Once even if you had a degree in Philosophy you had also taken classes in advanced maths as well as English composition.
You knew the basics of how the world worked, you could do math, write a coherent report, turn your work in on time, get along with people of other cultures, all things that even now will get you a job.
You also did not think that you already knew everything.
In fact, if your collage had done their job properly you were extremely cognoscente of how much you did not know.
Not the case today.
there are one million jobs to go around to all the kids, nephews, nieces, and kids of friends of those who work in corporate and government America or those of sorority members. At 7% degreed, everybody got a job, even those from the lesser-knnwn schools. 7% degreed meant that degree was gifted or worked hard for. At 45%, the market is flooded but the connected are still going to get their jobs (see Malia, Chelsea, Hunter etal) leaving slim pickings for those who are not connected or were unable to form connectons during the college experience - the average student.
I did not because my degrees in Geology and Pharmacy and aviation had value.
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