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A Degree of Insignificance (College Degrees getting to be useless nowadays)
WorldnetDaily ^ | 12/29/2007 | Phyllis Schlafly

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ba; bs; careers; college; degree; highereducation; insignificant; jobs; ma; ms; outsourcing
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To: Rider on the Rain

Lighten up. You can’t expect anyone in that kind of despiration to give a damn about what’s going on way over in iraq.


141 posted on 12/29/2007 7:47:48 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Neverforget01

I guess I’ll take your word for it then, and retract the nitwit remark. But I’ve never heard of any university that would take on grad students with poor grades. That doesn’t make any sense.

If most accountants have a CPA license and a BS degree only, then I would have to say that is her problem. Too much education, not enough work experience. That happens.


142 posted on 12/29/2007 7:52:53 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

Good point.


143 posted on 12/29/2007 7:54:29 PM PST by Rider on the Rain
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To: Chickensoup

CPA: Okay, if you’re average. C_G_A : about 5 orders of magnitude better.


144 posted on 12/29/2007 7:59:01 PM PST by Don W ( Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.)
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To: Don W

CPA: Okay, if you’re average. C_G_A : about 5 orders of magnitude better.

From what I can see, only if you are in Canada. Is there anyone IN Canada with money, besides that Celine person?


145 posted on 12/29/2007 8:03:52 PM PST by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: mamelukesabre

You don’t get into grad school with poor grades, nitwit.

depends on the school


146 posted on 12/29/2007 8:05:24 PM PST by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: ottbmare
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.

The top law school graduates who make law review get good jobs.

The rest of them go to work in government where they bozzle up the already plentiful laws with their own brand of bureaucratic ineptitude.

147 posted on 12/29/2007 8:07:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: Sloth

An ugly reality.


148 posted on 12/29/2007 8:08:56 PM PST by dsc
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To: GinaLolaB

Nonsense. Every business from small to large has an accounting department. You can’t run a business without keeping books.
I don’t even have a degree but worked as an automotive accountant for nearly 30 years. The problem now is that with programs like Excel, nobody really needs to know anything about accounting. Just plug in the formulas and let the computer do the work. When computers took over, I retired.


149 posted on 12/29/2007 8:10:40 PM PST by wayoverthehill
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To: KoRn

That is correct. My son works for a Fortune 100 company and does not have a degree. He didn’t want to go because he said in the computer field, by the time he got his degree, everything he learned would be obsolete because the field was moving and growing so fast. Apparently he was right because he is the only non-degreed person in his department and they wanted him because he could think “outside the box” and think on the fly. His experience and work history far outweighs any degree.


150 posted on 12/29/2007 8:15:50 PM PST by wayoverthehill
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To: Edward Watson

I’ll make sure you pay full rate when I have to come and install your new bathroom.

Need a degree my hairy butt! Train in a trade (electrical, carpentry, plumbing, HVAC ) and write your own cheque.

Only elitists, liberals and snobs think that a degree is the only way to earn a good living. For shame.


151 posted on 12/29/2007 8:16:40 PM PST by Don W ( Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.)
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To: SeekAndFind; stuartcr; Maine Mariner
...how on earth can an elite college like Duke graduate engineering students where close to half are begging for engineering jobs ?

Perhaps it's because they're Duke engineering grads, not NC State engineering grads... /grin

152 posted on 12/29/2007 8:22:30 PM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: Chickensoup
Only 46 billionaires here. Notice the jealousy in the article>. Typical of the Communist Broadcorping Castration CBC.
153 posted on 12/29/2007 8:23:48 PM PST by Don W ( Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Today the most important job qualifications are if you’re a minority candidate or a woman.


154 posted on 12/29/2007 8:24:05 PM PST by 38special (I mean come on.)
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To: Starwolf

Sometimes it says that the person didn’t have rich parents to pay for him to lay around for 4-5 years. Sometimes it says that that person wanted to get on with their life and was smart enough and ambitious enough to do it on their own.

My stepson has a degree in History from a well-known university. He has never had a “real” job. He is a professional musician. He works steady but never makes much money. His wife is the money-maker in the family. But my husband spent $50K just so his kid could say he had a degree. A stupid waste of money in that case.
Maybe you should try to find out a bit more about the person rather than just blowing them off if you don’t see a degree. You might be missing out on a fabulous employee.


155 posted on 12/29/2007 8:25:57 PM PST by wayoverthehill
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To: tarheelswamprat

I think you are on to something


156 posted on 12/29/2007 8:29:34 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Chickensoup

There’s an old joke among law school students and grads. The A students continue as law professors, the B students work for the government and the C students make money.

We know an attorney who makes a ton of money representing big name clients ... and brags about graduating dead last in his class.


157 posted on 12/29/2007 8:31:07 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: familyop

For its part, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, eliminated all endowment funded merit scholarships. All college funded scholarships will be based on need.


158 posted on 12/29/2007 8:33:12 PM PST by nygoose
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To: SeekAndFind

Not terribly long ago, it was assumed that a college degree was for an education and not job training.


159 posted on 12/29/2007 8:34:14 PM PST by Rudder
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To: M. Dodge Thomas
teachers start out relatively low....no lower than new social workers or accountants or librarians...but their pay goes up fairly quickly....and the time off...its worth many thousands of dollars...the benefits..the retirement..and after a short 2 yrs or so, many have tenure and can't be fired....

what do education majors expect?....to be paid like they are nuclear engineers?...rock stars?...

160 posted on 12/29/2007 8:36:22 PM PST by cherry
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