And in the “I Don’t Want to Have a Future” catagory are all the students who foolishly major in Journalism or Communication (TV). Newspapers are as antiquated as the teletype. There are only a few hundred TV stations in the country, and only a tiny number hire new anchors each year. (Elderly anchors can stay until their plastic surgeons retire, and if you are White, you are not in the diversity game.)
Yet universities across the land are happy to take thousands of parents’ savings to train their starry-eyed youth for these imaginary jobs. In a just world, this would be investigated as fraud
The WSJ had an article about the the top 200 careers, taking into consideration pay, job security and working conditions. News reporter was 5th from the bottom.
I don’t remember whether they even had petroleum engineer on the list, but oil companies will take any kind of engineer. An engineer with an MBA would be golden. some of the oil companies are actually paying bonuses to older employees for not retiring because they don’t have the people coming up to replace them.