Oh Yeah!
Please Make Your Donation!
Posted on 11/16/2013 2:26:00 PM PST by Hojczyk
Alba Méndez, a 24-year-old with a master’s degree in sociology, sprang out of bed nervously one recent morning, carefully put on makeup and styled her hair. Her thin hands trembled as she clutched her résumé on her way out of the tiny room where a friend allows her to stay rent free.
She had an interview that day for a job at a supermarket. It was nothing like the kind of professional career she thought she would have after finishing her education. But it was a rare flicker of opportunity after a series of temporary positions, applications that went nowhere and employers who increasingly demanded that young people work long, unpaid stretches just to be considered for something permanent.
Soon after her 23rd birthday four years ago, Melissa Abadía made a wrenching decision: She would leave her close-knit family in Spain, where the grinding fallout from the 2008 financial crisis had made securing a good job impossible, and move to the Netherlands, where employers were still hiring.
“When I got on the plane, I was crying,” Ms. Abadía, a bright, ebullient woman, recalled. “But I had to decide: Should I fight for something back home that makes no sense, or get out of there and make a life for myself?”
Despite five years of training in nursing in her hometown, Castellón de la Plana, in eastern Spain, she now works in a windowless stockroom in Amsterdam organizing purses, socks and other accessories at a clothing store.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Enjoy socialist serfdom, Alba!
Major in sociology?
Educated in liberalism and looking for work... go figure.
A master’s degree in sociology. That means you can maybe get a teaching job teaching others to be potential teachers.
What did she think she was going to get majoring in sociology?? She should be grateful anyone would hire her IN SPITE of her track record of foolish decisions.
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"Garcon!"
A degree in sociology? With a degree like that you’ll be lucky if you can get a job washing taxis.
I know! More socialism!
.... she now works in a windowless stockroom in Amsterdam organizing purses, socks and other accessories at a clothing store.
Sociology [soh-see-ol-uh-jee, soh-shee-]: The science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.
It sounds like Alba is in exactly the right job to take advantage of her master's degree in sociology.
She can now use her in-depth analysis of society's use of purses, socks and other accessories, coupled with the puffery and blather she parroted back at the college professors in her Master's Thesis, to write a voluminous leftist Sociological Analysis tome for elite readers like Liz Alderman of the NYT.
Just think of the far left memes and tropes she can freely litter throughout her masterpiece, that will get Liz and her cohorts all atwitter and stumbling around with both legs tingling.
Alba you go for it Gurrrl!
Use those thin trembling hands of yours to set Liz and her far left Sistas ON FIRE!
Thanks. You saved me the trouble.
These young people can find work. They will just have to travel a ways to find it. As pointed out in the article, lower-level, entry work can be found in Northern Europe. If they travel a bit farther to say Canada or the US, they would easily be able to find jobs. Hopefully, they will learn why they can’t find work in their home countries -— the root of their problem is socialism. It just does not work. The idea of government giving them what they think is free stuff (really, it’s the government stealing from some citizens to give to other citizens), is not a template for fast economic growth.
BTW did you see the photo of Ms. Abadia? It looks like her slacks were spray painted on.
Melissa is not guilty, btw.
Stupid lieberals and leftists fail to realize that under free market economies there are plenty of jobs and even more chances for their own selected fields. Keep bashing capitalism and they can kiss their socialist dreams goodbye too.
A privilege, not a right... and hence why she's not guilty.
I’m not complaining, mind you.
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