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Half of college grads can't find full-time jobs (Go Obama!!! No, really go Obama.)
CBS ^ | 5/14/2012 | Jim Axelrod

Posted on 05/14/2012 4:53:40 PM PDT by tobyhill

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1 posted on 05/14/2012 4:53:49 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

There’s justice: half of them aren’t employable.


2 posted on 05/14/2012 4:56:40 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: tobyhill

On a personal level unemployment is either 0% or 100% (part-time and underemployment not considered).


3 posted on 05/14/2012 4:58:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tobyhill
It would help immensely if they majored in engineering, finance, accounting or in IT. There are jobs for them.
4 posted on 05/14/2012 4:58:43 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: tobyhill

“We have begun to see what Change looks like.” - BHO


5 posted on 05/14/2012 4:58:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber (To the left wrong is right, down is up and backward is "Forward")
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To: elpadre

She majored in English and wants to work in the fashion industry...solid plan by her.


6 posted on 05/14/2012 5:00:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: tobyhill
Not at all surprising.

Have a degree in liberal arts? You are prepared for NOTHING!

Have a degree in Journalism? SORRY, YOUR INSTITUTIONS ARE IN A DEATH RATTLE!

Socialism is dying...liberalism is dying...college elitism/diversity is dying...bullshit is in a coma!

Maybe you should go to a cheap but good state univ and get a useful degree (accounting, engineering, bidness...).

Or start with a good technical school!

7 posted on 05/14/2012 5:01:08 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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To: tobyhill
Look on the bright side. Half of you college grads can now volunteer to work on Obama’s reelection.
8 posted on 05/14/2012 5:01:18 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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You mean my double major in Wymyn’s Studies and Elizabethan Poetry won’t get me that CEO job??? Who can I sue??


9 posted on 05/14/2012 5:01:59 PM PDT by TheBigB (Hippie liberal chick: "What do I do about birth control?" Me: "Just use your personality.")
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To: tobyhill

>>Forbes majored in English, but a recent study found employers most likely to hire graduates with engineering (69 percent), business (63 percent), accounting (53 percent) or computer science degrees (49 percent).<<

Res ipsa loquater, baby (maybe she should have majored in Latin...?)


10 posted on 05/14/2012 5:04:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: tobyhill

I’ve dreamed of becoming a blog pimp. Would a degree in journalism help?


11 posted on 05/14/2012 5:09:26 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: elpadre
It would help immensely if they majored in engineering, finance, accounting or in IT.

I'll go along with the finance, accounting, and information technology but I think you are a bit naive if you think the average college student can easily switch his or her major over to engineering. I remember one Freeper who commented that the head of a college engineering department told him that only maybe 15 percent of students could handle the math involved in engineering courses. That rings true to me.

12 posted on 05/14/2012 5:10:38 PM PDT by OldPossum
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"They said, 'You get a degree, you'll get a job, you are going to be a step ahead of everybody,'...

You just won half the battle Julian if you are savvy enough to see it.

"Trust in God, question everyone else".

Just because someone says it, it doesn't make it true.

13 posted on 05/14/2012 5:11:13 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: RoosterRedux

Just curious. What is your level of education?


14 posted on 05/14/2012 5:12:58 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: TheBigB
Who can I sue??

Anyone you want to however if you are going to steal, steal from those who have the most to steal from.

15 posted on 05/14/2012 5:15:05 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: OldPossum
Top of my class...operations research (math/business)...masters level.

Instead of going the doctoral route (big mistake IMO)...I choose Wall St!

16 posted on 05/14/2012 5:17:29 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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To: OldPossum

BTW, I love history, logic, literature, art, the classics, the Greek Classics, archaeology, etc...but that is what is defined as an avocation...not a vocation.


17 posted on 05/14/2012 5:21:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Thank you. It’s interesting that you work on Wall Street. One last request: are all the people you work with graduates with similar degrees (i.e., math, business), or are some college graduates with degrees in other majors, such as the denigrated liberal arts that so many on FR (such as you) love to rail against? Tell the truth now.


18 posted on 05/14/2012 5:26:01 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum
I am long retired.

But the folks who have liberal arts degrees on Wall St are usually analysts who are junior folk who are headed back to B-School for some technical training before becoming permanent.

Nowadays...math is the big thing!

19 posted on 05/14/2012 5:31:48 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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To: OldPossum
BTW, I think a liberal arts degree is a wonderful thing...just not something needed for a job or vocation.

As said, liberal arts is a life-time goal/achievement.

I have never stopped studying my favorite fields (history, literature, archaeology, classics, etc). And my first love, math...it is still a growing endeavor.

20 posted on 05/14/2012 5:37:30 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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