Margaret Thatcher's government favored higher salaries for government employees for this very reason.
Posted on 12/29/2007 4:25:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
.S. News & World Report, which has made a name for itself by ranking and announcing the best colleges every year, is now ranking and listing the best careers for young people. A comparison of the latest lists shows a shocking disconnect and makes for dispiriting holiday reading.
While the price of a college education has skyrocketed far faster than inflation, many careers for which colleges prepare their graduates are disappearing. U.S. News' Best Careers guide concludes, "college grads might want to consider blue-collar careers" because bachelor's degree holders "are having trouble finding jobs that require college-graduate skills."
Incredibly, U.S. News is telling college graduates to look for jobs that do not require a college diploma. Among the 31 best opportunities for 2008 are the careers of firefighter, hairstylist, cosmetologist, locksmith and security-system technician.
Where did the higher-skill jobs go? Both large and small companies are "quietly increasing off-shoring efforts."
Ten years ago, we were told we really didn't need manufacturing because it can be done more cheaply elsewhere, that auto workers and others should move to information-age jobs. But now the information jobs are moving offshore, too, as well as marketing research and even many varieties of innovation.
The flight overseas includes professional as well as low-wage jobs, with engineering jobs offshored to India and China. Thousands of bright Asian engineers are willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages, which is why Boeing just signed a 10-year, $1 billion-a-year deal with a government-run company in India.
Society has been telling high school students that college is the ticket to get a life, and politicians are pandering to parents' desire for their children to be better educated and so have a higher standard of living.
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It’s a no-win situation for a lot of folks. My sister’s husband is a great guy, hard worker, and very smart. But he doesn’t have a college degree. This lack of a degree has closed so many doors for him, even jobs that are a cinch for him. He once lamented to me that employers do not care what his degree is in, it could be “underwater basket weaving” for all they care, but they will not even consider him for the opening without having that sheepskin.
The fact remains a person needs a degree in order to get a decent paying job.
BTTT!
I know in the insurance field, people getting out of college want to get the $30 to $40k out of the gate and it just ain’t there.
They spend all that money and time in college and I make more because I started as a file clerk, took my courses to earn licenses, spent the years they did in college working in real deals and now know more than they do and it pisses them off.
That being said, my children will go to college (God willing)
I recently received a Master’s Degree in Accounting and I cannot find a good job. The degree seems to be worthless. I think George Bush eliminated the accounting jobs and outsourced them to India. He has been such a disaster for the USA. I voted for him twice and I now I realize that he sold out the USA. I can’t wait till I never have to hear the name Bush again. (the only thing I got from the degree is a great big student loan to repay. I did not receive any of the money, the shyster college kept getting loans for me and taking the money for tuition. The teachers at my college sucked! I cannot pay the loans because I cannot get a job.)
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I hate hate hate that I agree with you.
But it's hard!
I recently received a Master’s Degree in Accounting and I cannot find a good job. The degree seems to be worthless.
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The degree has worth to the companies that you apply to ... you see they use you to justify sending their accounting data to India where they can pay someone 15% of your expected starting salary... without you applying they couldn’t say with a straight face that they attempted to hire in this country...
Get used to it ,, that profession is as dead as anything computer related here in the US..
Who get off the Green Line at Kenmore Square.
Kenmore Square. The Green Line.
My youth!
There is no place in the world like Boston in the Spring.
Well, it’s very odd that you can’t find a job in accounting, because a young man I know who has not yet received his bachelor’s degree in accounting is besieged with offers for excellent jobs, following paid internships with various accounting firms. He is in suburban Washington DC. Maybe you need to move.
Let me ask you: why did you pursue a master’s degree in accounting if there aren’t a lot of jobs in that field? Didn’t you do any research about the job prospects before you sank five years into your education?
You... you mean that my Bachelor’s Degree in Victims’ Studies from UMass won’t get me a job!?
They have also developed a market niche with automobile dealerships. No longer do dealerships and repair companies have loaners. They point you down the street to Enterprise. I imagine there is some risk management going on.
My word, that's true! I recently needed a new sink, faucet, and garbage disposal hooked up with an existing dishwasher. The plumbing was already in place. Plumbers were quoting me prices around $1200-1300 for the work. I told them (politely) to drop dead. Went to Home Depot, got a piece of plastic piping, got out my tool box, and did the hookup myself in about an hour. No problems, no leaks, everything works. And I'm a lady. The idea of paying $1300 an hour--! I should have gone into plumbing, I'd be rich today.
You don’t get into grad school with poor grades, nitwit.
You are being sarcastic, right? Many law school graduates finish with a quarter of a million dollars in debt, and finding a job afterward can be very difficult for them. When they do gets jobs they find the jobs entail 70-hour workweeks. Enjoy.
received a Master’s Degree in Accounting and I cannot find a good job.
Somehow your post sounds like made up hogwash.
A friend - Chinese born and US citizen - just graduated with a BS in Accounting and had several great jobs lined up before she even graduated.
LAUSD could have all the teachers they wanted, if they didn’t run that district like a cesspool. No discipline allowed, teachers get HURT, you have to drive all over the county and back, no support, and all the money is sucked up into the Administration. I would not work there, tho it is only 10 miles from here, if I were ordered to at gunpoint. Of course they need math teachers, but math teachers can call their own shots. There are not many of them and they are in high demand. LAUSD -— paaahhhh, don’t get me started.
Look, Come September, don’t blame Bush for your 2-bit degree from a Distance education college or diploma mill like University of Phoenix. Go get some real skills in areas that people are hiring in.
Depends on the school—Many Universities will take your money...Accountants are in demand everywhere. I know because I am one. But then I’m a CPA.
Margaret Thatcher's government favored higher salaries for government employees for this very reason.
My heart bleeds for you. You have trouble finding a job so you blame our commander in chief in time of war. You’ve gotta be a real patriotic lady.
Of course, there’s always the option that I will take. I received word a few weeks ago of my acceptance for a NROTC scholarship to my dream school (Virginia Tech). That means 4 years paid tuition and a guaranteed job after graduation. There’s not much that can beat that.
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