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 ...
i’m on my way to a masters, but i already have a sweet job. that being said, i wish i could go back to high school and take auto shop. biggest mistake that guidance counselors don’t tell you. everyone should take that class.
He aced his ACTs in math and scored very high in everything else, too. He's won all kinds of math contests.
College degree my ass. When was the last time you called a plumber to your house. They charge more than a M.D.
That is impressive.
BC not as good as BU?? What!!!
Well, BU has a good hockey team but the Eagles have excellent hockey and football.
My younger has already collected a hair over $500k in renewing scholarships, but she's waiting to hear from her top choice, Hofstra. I've already told the admission counselor she needs a 3/4 scholarship at the minimum or it's a no go. He said he could guarantee that and maybe a full ride. So I told him, when we get the papers, you'll get the acceptance. Oral promises are nice, written ones are better
Tell his parents to ask about the money. Don't be shy, just ask what MERIT scholarships will be offered to him
Not to pick on you, but to relate a story of an acquaintance:
A younger friend of mine graduated from college 8 or 10 years ago, had no serious prospects and finally took a job with Enterprise Rent-A-Car because no one else made him an offer.
Well, he drank the Kool-Aid, got with the program, made his dismal little office in East Porkchop successful and the company dragged him off to make him a supervisor. Now, at the age of 30 he's got a career. And if you ask him about it he get's all excited and won't shut up about Enterprise. Which suggests to me that he loves his job.
I, of course, envy and hate him now and hold him in contempt since he's happy, has found fulfilling work and has sold out to "the man"...
sounds like society does not want individuals with brains...
a degree is worth less because the information imparted is worth less.
Applied Materials Inc. and Chinese fab-tool rival Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) have agreed to disagree over a confidentially motion filed as part of a bitter legal battle between the two companies.
Applied Materials (Santa Clara, Calif.) seeks to prove its suit against AMEC (Shanghai) by providing a confidential "trade-secret list" to select employees from the Chinese IC-equipment supplier. In a document filed in December of 2007, Applied Materials claims AMEC is resisting the move, thereby delaying the motion.
The motion is part of a suit filed by Applied Materials against China's AMEC in October of 2007. Applied's suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California here, claims that AMEC is allegedly involved in misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract and unfair competition.
The co-defendants in the suit include several AMEC executives and former employees at Applied Materials: Gerald Yin, Aihua Chen, Ryoji Todaka and Lee Luo. In fact, the suit contends that 30 former Applied engineers now work at AMEC.
When we took him to RH for the summer program, I talked to one of the professors about him and she simply waved off the fact he has had autism (possibly Aspergers is more appropriate). She said they've very accustomed to it there and it would be getting more common in the future. He did very well and got along great. They knew him so when he was accepted there they probably felt he has a good degree of probability of success. I don't see why not.
Maybe your problem is your personality.
This is the question the parents should ask to the financial office. What is the average debt load of your graduates?
Liberal arts is worthless but they extend to all degrees.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
Yes. The market is chaos, although many idiots like to make it look more like a conspiracy. The market is being further messed-up by traitors, who are in favor of continuing to build the economies of antagonistic nations. Don’t listen to the maroons. Get a copy of “What Color Is Your Parachute.” It will help you to cut through the demoralizing crap about getting jobs and give you the edge that you need.
And to the pollyannas here who like to weld someone else’s hook to the bottom, I hope that oil goes to $200 per barrel during the coming year! ...hope that the dollar goes down to equal the yuan! And may you all find future jobs in t-shirt factories!
I graduated from a respected chemical engineering program in 1998 (at the height of Clinton’s “best economy in history”), and I couldn’t find an engineering job for about 2 years. Even then, it was a gov’t regulatory bureaucrat position.
Financial aid is going to be a necessity. He may go to Iowa State in the end. It’s hard to say if the education from RH is worth that much more than from ISU. If there’s sufficient financial aid, it’s conceivable he may be able to go to RH cheaper than ISU.
Too many "liberal arts" majors chasing jobs that don't exist, IMHO. With about a quarter of the adult population having a college degree these days, we should expect such results.
C'mon there's plenty of jobs for engineers in banking and furniture manufacture.
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