Posted on 03/30/2013 9:48:37 AM PDT by giant sable
The Department of Labor estimates that some three million Americans with Bachelor degrees work in jobs that don’t require an education at all–janitors, barristas, bartenders and retail clerks.There are a lot of obvious reasons why junior is now living in your basement at age 25.
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Hehe.
:) Don’t get me started.
When Obama talks about how he wants college for every living American kid, can someone have the freaking guts to ask him, “Why???”
It’s not the 1950s. College does two things to a middle class or lower kid: put him in debt for decades, and indoctrinate him with useless old fashioned communist thinking.
Anyone heading to a university these days should find a very practical useful degree. There are few of them.
We are NOT EXPORTING JOBS. We are buying products from the cheapest source. That the American manufacturing sector has gone offshore only means that the cost to produce goods has become too much within our borders.
Due to such ridiculous gum't policies such as minimum wages, unionism, overburdened with excessive, and often unfounded, regulation, and now with the added expenses of ObamaCare, it will increase production here, but move more away.
The nature of business is to make a profit for the investor(s), not to PROVIDE JOBS. Any argument otherwise is simply naivety expressed as caring. There is no cogent argument for asking businesses to do anything about jobs creation. It is the rejection of high-cost American production that causes people to buy Chinese goods (or Indian, Mexican, or any other foreign sources).
I remember my first transistor radio. It was 'Made in Japan'! The quality was far superior to anything found within our borders. Even today, lots of Americans drive Honda, Toyota, and other Japanese cars, and Mercedes still brings a premium price, due to quality, quality, and quality.
They have said, "don't buy a Chevy made on Monday or Friday..."
Unions, ya' know!
The World needs to know your answer!
After ten years in the workplace; just what % of college graduates are working in their degree?
yours especially
“I rather blame texting for a lot of the laziness with literacy.”
That and lots of immigrants doing fine work to whom english is a second language. It’s something you have to practice. Like cursive writing.
“Last time I heard, 50% of the programmer jobs in this area are held by foreign born workers.”
From the local demographics that is probably close. Why is that? I know Gates is always bemoaning the lack of education, but there has to be more to it than that.
Tax credits?
Benefit rules?
Harder working?
I’m pretty sure it isn’t because they can pay them less with all of the twenty-something foreigners driving their fancy cars around here.
That’s simply not true. Of my children’s friends, I know *one* who is going for an art degree. The rest went into welding, auto mechanics, engineering, computers, diesel mechanics, etc.
The problem is that these kids have to pay for a degree instead of working an apprenticeship. By the time they get out, they have $10-25,000 in debt... to learn a TRADE.
Then they apply for entry-level jobs the the employers (who wanted the degree for an entry-level job) don’t want to pay them more than $10 an hour.
How can a kid pay off that kind of debt on that wage? To top it off, it’s getting harder and harder to even find a full-time entry-level job.
“You are not a kid at 25”
That as a universality is a highly debatable assertion.
yours especially
What mean you say?
Try North Dakota craigs list under "skilled" and also "transport"
Also any other shale oil area....
East Texas, West Texas, New Mexico,Wyoming, Colorado, Pennsylvania, just google "oil shale map" for exact locations.
Top job is a wireline operator....well into 6 figures.
B.ullshyte
A.head?
Evidently manufacturing a generation of Useful Idiots who cheated/staggered their way through bidness school whilst decorating the internet with pornographic imagery of their frat-punk brethren and soro-sisters did not much of a future make.
I have a B.S. in accounting and an M.B.A. in finance and retired early and live comfortably on an acreage in the country. I know petroleum accountants with M.B.A.'s who are CEO's. I detect quite a bit of class envy in your screed.
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You can turn an engineer into a good writer. The opposite is not true.
Answer: less that 7 percent.
What is the percent of the private sector workforce that is union? Answer: less than 6 percent.
We are selling out our manufacturing base to our enemies for pennies on the dollar. What fools we are.
Where did you get your figures?
With more and more people looking for fewer and fewer positions, managers have gotten even worse with looking for a specific exact resume with a specific set of ticky marks. If you don’t hit what they think they are looking for in the phrasing that they are looking for, only a few know what to do with you enough to even process what value you might bring to the organization.
Knowing how to think is something that can definitely be gotten from studies of philosophy. On the other hand, I’ve seen a lot of people go through philosophy studies, and only understand the intricacies of historical philosophical constructs and be unable to produce any definitive output of thought.
For me myself, the most useful class I ever had for my career was chemistry, with a hat tip to statistics. Even though I only rarely touch upon chemistry even remotely at work, the thought processes of being methodical, meticulous, precise, and keeping good documentation - along with my love of epistemology, and my esoteric reading habits – have helped me compare quite favorably with the people sitting next to me with theoretically relevant masters degrees.
"Even the roar from Congressional critics about assembly line largesse seemed to miss the fact that (according to the UAW) labor costs account for about 10 percent of the cost of producing a vehicle; the remaining 90 percent includes research and development, parts, advertising, marketing and management overhead."
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