Posted on 09/06/2012 4:16:43 AM PDT by tobyhill
There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the "hollowing out" of the American middle class.
A new study by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) confirms the troubling trend.
NELP broke down jobs into low/ middle/and high-wage groups based on median incomes. Looking at the period from early 2008 through the first quarter of 2012, the study found: "High-wage" occupations accounted for 19% of the jobs lost during the Great Recession and 20% of the jobs gained during the recovery. "Mid-wage" occupations suffered 60% of job losses during the recession but only 22% of the growth during the recovery. "Low-wage" occupations accounted for 21% of the losses and a whopping 58% of the growth.
In other words, NELP found what many Americans already know: The market for middle class jobs has shrunk and most of the jobs that have been created during the recession are in low-income areas like retail and food services.
"In short, America's good jobs deficit continues," NELP said in a summary of the study. "Policymakers have understandably been focused on the urgent goal of getting U.S. employment back to where it was before the recession…but our findings underscore that job quality is rapidly emerging as a second front in the struggling economy."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Dunno if you read another part of my post to someone else, but I have primary hyperparathyroid disease. Looking in hindsight, that’s probably the main reason I failed around half of my classes in high school; math was a downward slope while I was still in junior high, so that’s easily my weakest subject.
Look it up: parathyroid.com
It’s a real disease that causes people to feel terrible daily, with no real apparent root problem. I haven’t slept well in around 13 years, so I’ve been living on cat naps for that whole time.
There are also messages sent by people cured of the disease; one was from a woman whose 16 year old daughter had the disease, and was doing poorly in school, requiring a full-time tutor. Her daughter was cured, subsequently caught up in her classes, then started to exceed her classmates, all because she had a tumor in her neck causing too much calcium to be sent to her brain, then had the tumor removed; her body found out what normal was, her brain ‘woke up’, and she did exceptional in school.
I know for a fact that college would be a big waste of money for me right now, since I wouldn’t be able to absorb anything. To top it off, I’d need at least a year of plenty of remedial courses.
This is a real thing that’s always misdiagnosed. I went for a sleep study that I didn’t need in 2007, and the endocrinologist I was seeing thought I was depressed - not his field. Every symptom of it could be misdiagnosed as its own separate problem. It’s a miracle I’m able to keep up on this website considering my brain is extremely sluggish.
Consider someone’s possible circumstances first.
Los Angeles College of Medicine, and Automatic Transmission Repair
We have a winner!
God bless you.
The test tends to be self-grading. The applicants who complain or don't try are right out. The ones who make the attempt often merit further consideration and the ones who ace the test have me as their strongest advocate. The best candidates come to me afterwards with suggestions on how to improve the tests. I'll storm the gates of h*ll to get those kind of people into the organization.
For context, I’m 72.
For further context, I graduated in 1966 (from a real college), when the degree actually meant something, as you acknowledge. At that time only 6.5% of the population 25 and older had a college degree. I think it’s around 28 percent now and growing.
I don’t know about your assertions regarding the legitimacy of degrees. I would think, though, that any medium to large corporation would check out a degree presented to see if it’s not one of those from a “degree mill.” There are certification boards throughout the USA, as you may know, and they can tell anybody in a company that wishes to be thorough in their qualification process whether the one on his desk is legitimate. So, that’s not the problem that you think it is.
I just outlined in one of my previous posts the Supreme Court decision in 1971 and its possible implications regarding qualifying applicants for jobs. And that’s all I wanted to do. Whether you understand it is not my problem.
But of course, I defer to your superior knowledge and experience, your being much younger than I.
That’s perfect. That way you can just have a dump of the SQL (you said databases, right), and just execute the dump to recreate the database for the next candidate. Then test their counts, group bys, joins, normalization, and what have you.
I had a suggestion for a previous company that had a written test for C/C++ developers: offer applicants a sandbox, as you have done for databases. Software development is essentially an iterative process - conceptualize -> code -> build -> fix errors -> build -> debug and so on. I felt they were weeding out some good candidates by only including the “code” portion of that cycle in the skills assessment.
Thank you very much. I go to sleep hoping that when I wake up, maybe I’ll be a little less tired than the previous morning.
There are many people out there who think that just because they have a degree to wipe their asses with that the world owes them a living. My mantra, as one in the position to hire, remains constant: [i]show me your achievements[/i].
My achievements? Lol, I can’t get a good opportunity or the courage to tell someone how I feel about her.
The HTML code for this website uses these > < .
Italics would be <.i> text goes here <./i> without either period in those.
Thank you SO MUCH for the reminder.
More seriously: I do hope that you can overcome the fatigue issue. Have you looked at nutrition? I find when I am tired it's often the result of a lack of fruits in the diet.
As far as "her"... well... Good grief, women are a whole other discussion...
For manage one needs to read control. The sheepskin is a good indicator that one is a sheep, a good little bot who researches what he's told to research.
FWIW Bill Gates, back when Microsoft was an up-and-comer, hired people who argued with him. That was seen as a positive. They did not want (Warcraft voice): "Yes boss... All right... right-o." They wanted thinkers... Innovators... And those do not always come from institutions.
There’s literally nothing that can be done to make my condition not as bad. The only fix is surgery to have the tumor removed.
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