[...] For many college students, the first thing they discover upon graduation is how low-paying and low-skill the job market is for them. If that information ever filters back to high school students or parents, maybe they will think twice about paying top dollar for tuition. -- from http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/06/overqualified.html |
I work with young graduate students in my field. On balance, I find they hae a remarkably high self esteem, but remarkably low self assurance and self confidence. They can't cope well with being told they are wrong, for example.
I had a client recently give me a hard time, insisting that what I had offered them was 'just opinion.' Of course it was - it was my very educated opinion, and that's worth a lot more, or balance, than their opinion. When framed like this, she freaked out.
Such delicate souls. Lucky for them they have such a powerful self image - I'd hate to imagine how they would cope if they didn't. :-)
I fired her as a client, too, and banned her from any of my products or consulting. :-)
1. My generation was misinformed—by elders and fortune—about the value of our college degrees. $120,000 of your/our money now buys, career-wise, just a hair more than your free high-school diploma used to.<<<<<<<<<<<
I think there is a lot of truth in this statement, in fact I can make a case that there was more real opportunity for males, especially WHITE males who had a high school diploma forty years ago than there is today for males with a college degree. Of course this refers only to those who go into the corporate world, those who start their own business are in a totally different category.