Liberals discuss non-existent job prospects for irrelevant majorsPosted on 06/12/2010 2:01:06 PM PDT by nwrep
Liberals discuss non-existent job prospects for irrelevant majors
Many from the Class of 2009 are living with their parents and working part-time retail jobs they could have landed without a degree. Others are taking more college classes to put off paying back student loans, which average more than $20,000. Many say they’ve lost self-confidence. Still, none of the 18 students from the Classes of 2009 and 2010 interviewed by The Oregonian expressed regret about going to college.
After a yearlong search, Jackie Mroz, 22, of Oregon City, is about to get some experience, but at a cost.
She put everything she had into her studies at the University of Oregon, graduating in 2009 with degrees in international studies and sociology and a double minor in nonprofit administration and African studies. She studied abroad in Senegal, took challenging courses, earned a 3.8 grade point average and raced through college in three years.
“It has gotten me pretty much nowhere,” she said.
Audra Armen-Van Horn, 23, Portland, worked for Victoria’s Secret while earning her psychology degree from the University of Oregon. Now, a year after graduating in 2009 and applying for more than 100 jobs, she’s still working part time for the store while hoping to get a job with the American Cancer Society.
Malcolm Staudinger, 22, a 2009 graduate in environmental science from Portland State University, lives at home with his parents in Vancouver, Wash., and is now looking to Montana and Alaska for a job related to geographic information systems.
Matt Petryni, 24, a 2009 UO graduate, said the seminar has helped him regain hope after a discouraging year of rejections from the world of urban planning where he hopes to work.
Of course some graduates are landing jobs, particularly those with specific technical skills such as John Yeier, 24, who graduated from the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls on Saturday. He’s the sole member of his class with a degree in embedded engineering , which integrates computer software and hardware in cell phones, cars and other machines. He will work on small plane navigation system software for Garmin AT in Salem.
Career plan:
Fill your head full of liberal claptrap while pursuing a degree in some kind of worthless leftist psuedo-science.
Graduate and whine that the Mickey Mouse degree you wasted your money on isn’t opening any doors for you.
Get an entry level part time job at minimum wage, scrounge off Mom and Dad a few more years and wait until 2011 so you can vote for Obama The Wetback again.
I bless you for your optimism, my American friend. However, in my cerusty cynicism, I will just pray that 10% see that light. The tattooed and pierced "Liberal Arts" graduates are largely very ignorant people, apparently from some other planet, most of whom could not have gotten their 8th grade certificate from a Maine Public School of the 1940's. Of course, there is a sensible and intelligent minority of people among them, but unfortunately, they too have very few factual bits in their "hard drives."
It ain't George Bush's fault. It's ours. They are our children and grandchildren after all.
But once that kool-aid of Karl and the Socialists has been drunk, the drinkers tend to stay drunk. They voted for hope and change. I hope the Chinese don't change them too harshly. Or the Muslims. Or the Russians. Ignorance + sweeping demographic changes could very well wipe out what you and I think of as the "United States of America,"
With a degree available on rolls in any toilet, what a surprise that they can’t get jobs that pay them what THEY think they’re worth.
Anyone who got a degree in engineering or a hard science can make a comfortable living on that single degree.
The perfect qualification for Government Work, which soon, ala Greece, will be the ONLY work.
The "African Studies Programs" (Majored in by Michelle Obama at PRINCETON,) are laughable and almost without any academic merit.
In a word, they are the application of a very watered down version of the Marxist dialectic to race relations. I recommend this field be renamed "Obamstudies." This is what Barak Hussein Obama Junior Studied and why he knows absolutely nothing about anything and has mastered only the reading of his masters' words from two teleprompters, twitching his gaze from one to the other, as a boa constrictor viewing his next meal.
yep, one must seek an “education” on one’s own. Training is the only value out there these days. The philosophy, literature and history courses I loved have been utterly perverted by the Marxists. Sometimes I wish I had gone into academia just to oppose them. We have ceded way too much to the fools.
This means that today's techies have to learn stuff pretty much for themselves, ironically making them tougher and better disciplined people.
One must admire the grit of these foreign grad students, too. Mastering technical subjects without any knowledge of or cognizance of the Western canon and languages from which they spring is mighty tough. Too gd many of them here, though/
Same here. PC was almost my downfall, but then, so was invertebrate embryology. Pushed me to my limits. I had some incredibly smart profs that knew their stuff and made sure I learned it.
Ok, everyone say after me:
“You want fries with that?”
You got that right!
my boss is a P.E. major, I am an English major. Our company makes a product that has nothing to do with either. He’s out of shape, I still read a lot. He thought he would be a high school football coach, and I thought I would be a lawyer (was for a decade). He makes more money than any high school coach, and I make about as much as I did lawyering (and have time to read, and can sleep at night) and am a lot happier. These kids should get a job, work at it, learn, and be on the lookout for ways to advance. Getting a degree in x,y or z doesn’t guarantee anything, and might mean you wasted four years listening to and reading a bunch of garbage.
that was problem in those fields 25 years ago. Some things never change. Teaching assistants. Ugh.
Quite probable that they haven’t. Even more prosperous areas don’t update it yearly, usually.
Nowadays, a lot of the grunt work that in the past was done by recent law school graduates can be offshored cheaply to India. Not as much need now to hire fresh law school grads.
One of the reasons I enjoy being in tech. Constantly changing, yes I have to study to keep up, but I actually find that aspect enjoyable. Learning new things should be fun.
In fact I rearned Carcurus from one of those Chinese guys (I think) although I am still puzzled over ramda function you put ova he. But I am a master of argolithms, yoo razy boy!
“Urban Planning” why not Architecture...there’s nothing wrong with architecture-—George Castanza
I don’t know why these people are whining...we have the greatest economy since the Founding Fathers ever founded something....
Kelly Ripa ping!
I am so glad I took A.P. calculus in high school. There was a movement to require English proficiency tests for TAs at my university. The idea was shot down by the administration and student paper as ...... wait for it....... you know it’s coming....... racist.
I turned in the same paper for Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, and got an “A” every time. I think that with a couple of pages of edits, I could have done it again with Political Science.
I knewed it. Yoo ah lacist! Yoo wir frunk my carcurus coaws fo shoe. I no cay if ramda function is OK!
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