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The Lost Generation (The continuing job crisis is damaging the future of our young people)
Business Week ^
| 10/9/2009
| Peter Coy
Posted on 10/10/2009 4:12:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: I see my hands
Rabscuttle has a point. Obama Gen Y? Nope. Reid Gen Y? Nope. Ayers? Nope. Pelosi? Nope. Hmmm. I’m seeing a trend. Alot of Gen Y’ers in there.
To: freedumb2003
I really do feel sorry for this generation.
It is a bizarre combination of helicopter-parent led Im special arrogance and yet not being trained for useful careers that has landed them in forceps not of their making.
I have a friend whose daughter graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in International Business at Grove City College this year ( She took up Chinese as a second language for 3 years ). Guess where she found a job ? A Chinese trading company in Hang Zhou. Of course she isn't making US dollars and her salary won't be as good as if she were working in the USA. But hey, she had been looking for 6 months. It beats being unemployed.
To: rbg81
I’ve been told that there are over 400 graduate students in aerospace engineering at Purdue, and under 100 research projects. This because there are so few aerospace engineering jobs.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:34:58 PM PDT
by
mike70
To: SeekAndFind
The central planners in DC could double the number of employed teens if they simply eliminated the minimum wage. How much they make per hour is not really important. What IS critical for them is that they learn how to work.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:36:18 PM PDT
by
mtrott
To: Boardwalk
I think he would do that at his own peril. Those folks vote in much higher percentages than the twenty somethings.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:38:28 PM PDT
by
mtrott
To: SeekAndFind
In today’s world, languages — especially Far and Middle East — are a good skill to have.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:38:56 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: SeekAndFind
Oh cry me a river.Most of ‘em voted for “THE ONE” so they can just suck it up.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:41:27 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: rabscuttle385
as opposed to the Baby Boomers who spent like drunken sailors for decades and now expect my generation to clean up their messes *and* pay for their retirement? You can thank The Baby Booomers' parents for that. SSI is the biggest ponzi scheme ever -- and the bill gets bigger as time goes by.
It has nothing to do with the accumulation or lack thereof of wealth by the Boomers.
Look at where the wealth is now: it is in the hands of the Boomers -- who earned it.
Your analysis is 100% wrong.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:42:31 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: imahawk
See, at least you said “most of ‘em.”
To: FreeSouthernAmerican
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:43:18 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:45:03 PM PDT
by
XBob
(Jail the employers of the INVADERS !!)
To: freedumb2003
So the Mercedes given to the 16 year old, the have-to-have cell phones, brand new designer clothes every school year, the best and newest game systems, and the tv babysitter? The Baby Boomer parents were involved in none of that? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not gonna generalize about them either, but that is the MO of MOST Boomers that became parents.
To: SeekAndFind
Hey kids, you ****ed up, you trusted Obama.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:46:56 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
To: freedumb2003
My daughter wants to study medicine, and is taking Japanese as her second language. She is excelling in it. She might be able to cross over to Chinese, etc.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:47:29 PM PDT
by
ican'tbelieveit
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To: freedumb2003
Gen Y is generally known as Mid 70s to early 90s. Try again.
To: mike70
Yeah, aerospace engineering was big in the 60s when we had Vietnam and the Space program. Now we are basically down to one new fighter aircraft. Boeing is the only big commercial airplane company—and they love to outsource their jobs. Still, someone with a degree in Chemical, Electrical, or even Environmental engineering should do fine.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:48:00 PM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: FreeSouthernAmerican
Most kids today could’nt pour piss out of a boot with the instuctions on the heel.Working with ones hands will always provide a source of income.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:48:32 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: FreeSouthernAmerican
Can you imagine if EVERYONE had engineering degrees. We are not all called to be the same thing, thankfully. The other problem is that you can’t get your foot in the door on most jobs without a bachelor’s degree, so kids have to get through something.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:49:35 PM PDT
by
ican'tbelieveit
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To: FreeSouthernAmerican
Sorry — Obama is Gen X.
In the old days Gen Y was between 1960 and 1980, but then they came up with Gen X and moved Gen Y bag a generation.
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posted on
10/10/2009 4:51:10 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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