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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GLOBALism is the major reason America has no jobs. Setting aside the real estate scam boom via fake loans, we are coming down to a service society. We can buy what we import and sell to one another. That is severely limited by the minimum wage service jobs remaining in America. This unhappy reality gave the socialists the opportunity for power.
The global “business” biggies are sucking the Treasury dry and what remains of the wealth in the middle class (see the bankster/ socialist shake down in Europe, which will soon be coming here to grap our retirement accounts). Corporates are joining socialists in the global warming shake down scam. They get billions from the Treasury that we don’t have to make energy saving stuff that doesn’t work all that great and that few can afford anymore.
The global warming solution gives socialists control over the central means of production - oil. That gives them total control over people in a life or death way. They get to control food production, heat and air conditioning by taxing oil and dictating it’s use. The globalist coporates get an immediate influx of huge money and what do they care what happens to the global market place after the socialists wreck the US.
All that business CEO’s value is profit for today and the socialists are opening the Treasury to them in order to cement power. The socialists are in the game of slavery for the long term. I can only hope the globalists loose all their protected wealth to the socialists before they die.
I beg to differ. We (I’m 27) have been told our entire lives that we should find what we REALLY want to do before we should “settle down”.
It’s affecting the entire social fabric. Google “MGTOW” for a glimpse into another side effect.
I’m fully convinced it’s a systematic effort to subjugate the entire populace.
The MGTOW movement, or the unemployment/economic-conditions imposed by the government?
If you are 27, and still consider yourself a kid...there are bigger issues.
I hate it when that happens. Lead. Follow...or get OUT of my way! :)
“...you are aware that most philosophy courses are only a few courses removed from a Mathematics degree, right?”
One of my buds is a mathamatics professor and I’ll ask you the same question I asked him when he started so many years ago.
Besides teaching, what other careers are available out there for that degree?
Philosophy may be a worthy course of study, but the market for that degree is extremely limited. You’re basically waiting for a teacher somewhere to retire or die - and then you’re competing with people with their phd’s for that open position. An undergraduate degree in Philosophy, and mathematics for that matter, may not be a BS degree, but they are only good in an acedemic sense and limited at that. Get the phd or minor in that dicipline.
I hire and keep the A’s. The boss prior to me stuck me with some dead wood, but they’re finding their way to the door...
Usually your most ‘expensive’ employee is NOT the one you’re paying the most! ;)
Thanks! Full Speed Ahead! :)
> Besides teaching, what other careers are available out there for that degree?
http://philosophy.unc.edu/undergraduate-program/why-major-in-philosophy
and
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/phil/alumni/why
answer that a little bit — technical writers (explaining in plain English technical and scientific ideas) is perhaps one of the big things that’s needed in my field [computer science] — because a *lot* of documentation is decidedly subpar.
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
John W. Gardner
This is just a side effect.
The REAL reason is that it keeps them OUT of the job market; thereby making the unemployment stats better...
Millions do before they get born.
There’s always FORTRAN and Pascal to fall back on...
Yeah, I wasn’t clear there. I don’t...many of my generation still do however.
The socio-economic conditions.
A kid is a baby goat.
I bought cheap ones and got paid back in 3 haircuts!
That was 20 years ago and they are STILL working!
USE the math in a field that needs it: engineering of some type
“technical writers”
I’ve been a hiring IT and technical people for the last 20 years. I’ve hired a few writers, but not a lot - and never a philosophy grad.
I can say that in my experience writing is what used to seperate the college grad from the rest, regardless of the degree. That is less the case today. Sadly. A good writer is gold.
Good to know.
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