Posted on 10/26/2007 6:49:11 PM PDT by VA Voter
And he’s obviously never heard of the museum industry. I’d guess they’d take a history major or two.
Shouldn’t his history ciricculum have taught him that there are no jobs for history majors?
I went to the Buffalo paper where the story originated and wanted to tell the kid that (as the rest of us have pointed out). Too bad; they don’t allow comments over there.
Haliburton is looking for truck drivers to drive fuel tank trucks in Iraq for $ 90,000 a year. Get to strap on a pistol and carry a carbine on the job.
Different title and source, but we've already had a lot of fun beating on this pinata.
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Oh, yeah. I wanna hire him.
If he wanted a degree in history, he could have obtained his teaching certificate to go with it. Instant job.
Or better yet, get the history degree within an ROTC program. Instant job.
Or spend the $32,000 learning a trade and opening a business.
He is as dumb as I was when I left college with a degree in English. It didn’t take me long to go to nursing school to get a marketable skill.
That should be “curriculum”. Sorry.
History is a hobby. Get a degree that prepares you for a job. Stop whining. You are not the first graduate to have trouble finding a job. Nor are you the first person to be in debt. Just face it. You made some bad decisions. Now, get your act together and make something of yourself so we don’t have to pay any more of your bills.
Want to borrow a kid? If he screws up his education, I will rent him out. LOL.
In Europe, for hundreds of years, one's education included becoming a master in some trade, be it masonry, arts, goldsmith, = as a fall-back in times when the 'real' jobs were scarce. It was a good backup plan.
I think high schoolers and college kis alike should be required to take a 2 year course in some trade at a voc school. There would far less unemployment
Waaaah! Maybe if you had a few econ classes you would have learned about the distorting effects government subsidies have on markets. To summarize, Uncle Sucker subsidizing so much of college education allows the price on it for everyone to rise.
Mom and Dad need to send JR. packing.
Sure, but he would have to compromise his integrity by wearing a clean shirt showing up on time, and filling out reports.
Dude, get a grip. Look, your major is useless in this techno-specialist world. Next trick, go back to school for computors, or even better, join the Army and become a Master of the Bayonet. When you get out you’ll still be able to work on PCs, and kick crap out of anyone dissin’ Rangers. You’ll hate liberals and have lovely flashbacks of combat, like mine, to remind you of the good old days. Don’t be such a whiner!
Got anything teaching history for, say, 40.00 per hour? These Alaksa trips ain't cheap.
So how does “work” compromise your integrity?
Only place that pays for a history degree is the military and they have help pay your college loans.
What did he expect to make with a history degree?
>> I am 24, live with my parents, can’t find work and am floundering in a sea of debt five figures high.
Ken, glad to see you made it through Complaining 101, 201, and 301. You’re very good at it. Get a job in a journalism.
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