Posted on 09/01/2011 5:13:17 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Meet the members of what might be called Generation Limbo: highly educated 20-somethings, whose careers are stuck in neutral, coping with dead-end jobs and listless prospects.
And so they wait: for the economy to turn, for good jobs to materialize, for their lucky break. Some do so bitterly, frustrated that their well-mapped careers have gone astray. Others do so anxiously, wondering how they are going to pay their rent, their school loans, their living expenses sometimes resorting to once-unthinkable government handouts.
We did everything we were supposed to, said Stephanie Morales, 23, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2009 with hopes of working in the arts. Instead she ended up waiting tables at a Chart House restaurant in Weehawken, N.J., earning $2.17 an hour plus tips, to pay off her student loans. What was the point of working so hard for 22 years if there was nothing out there? said Ms. Morales, who is now a paralegal and plans on attending law school.
Some of Ms. Moraless classmates have found themselves on welfare. You dont expect someone who just spent four years in Ivy League schools to be on food stamps, said Ms. Morales, who estimates that a half-dozen of her friends are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. A few are even helping younger graduates figure out how to apply. We are passing on these traditions on how to work in the adult world as working poor, Ms. Morales said.
But then there are people like Ms. Kelly and Ms. Klein, who are more laissez-faire. With the job market still bleak, their motto might as well be: No career? No prospects? No worries! (Well, at least for the time being.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
....NANCY PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance....
I don’t think it is too much to ask to have a job somewhere doing something. all you hard hearted job holders must not have college age kids who can’t get their foot in the door.
What is your solution?
Should Obama mandate that private industry should create 25 million jobs next Monday? Or borrow a couple of more trillion dollars and have them work for the government until we burn through that money also? Then what?
I’m curious who these students voted for. The Hope and Changey dude?
Apparently she did everything except get a marketable degree in an in-demand field.
It was worse in 1980.
What is my solution? I will tell you my solution.
Repeal Obamacare so that business is not afraid to hire the people it needs. Repeal the minimum wage. Revoke environmental regulations and statutes that make things impossible. Create a business friendly environment.
I like your line,
“lazy bastards with crayons”
We agree totally on the fix.
A majority of these rock the vote, were going to change the world college age voters gave us mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama as president. It is a shame that we are all suffering from their idealist nonsense voting behavior.
Now we are supposed to feel sorry for them?
You asked numberonepal:
“You have a lot of nerve calling them pukes. what do you suggest for them, genius?”
Yet you have said this as well: “What is my solution? I will tell you my solution. Repeal Obamacare so that business is not afraid to hire the people it needs. Repeal the minimum wage. Revoke environmental regulations and statutes that make things impossible. Create a business friendly environment.”
And you can accomplish all of that by yourself, right? numberonepal is closer to the mark. Don’t get me wrong, I want Obamacare repealed, but Obamacare is only a symptom of a greater problem. I think numberonepal was alluding to that greater problem: many young people have little or no skills for the real world, their education is a sham, they often have no work ethic, they often assume they will start off high up rather than entry level, and they feel so damn entitled!
And many of those young people VOTED FOR OBAMA!!! They are reaping what they sowed.
You are correct, but I think Freepers are generally very skeptical of the skills and attitude of what are perceived as arrogant Ivy-League students (at least as portrayed by the NY Times). No one is "entitled" to a job.
I had a good degree, in economics, from a famous university - my first job? Counting stock in a warehouse. I too felt very put-upon. It took a few years of working in the REAL world to adjust my ego and attitude.
They are dumb kids.
And besides, only a few of us could see what a fake obama was. So yeah, they need a job.
Can we only let them vote at 18 if they are serving in the military?
These dumb kids could put the final nail in the coffin of this 230 year old shining city on a hill with their next vote.
It's perfect preparation for the 50 years that follows.
Nobody was hiring in 1980 and 81. The biggest difference I see between the situation then and now is that back in the early 80’s you couldn’t even get a stupid McDonald’s job or manual labor job to hold you over. There was literally nothing out there. Now the stupid jobs are out there all over the place.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
vlad
yeah, I can’t accomplish it by myself, very true and I am distraught over our future.
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