Posted on 02/19/2020 3:03:56 PM PST by karpov
Where do you live — state and metro area? I will send a Freep-mail in the next 24 hours with some ideas and advice. I serve on an advisory board for my engineering school alma mater, and I always look for opportunities to do “Career Day” events with recent grads.
We are in the SF Bay area, but we are moving to Bentonville Arkansas in the next few months. We have lots of family in Dallas. She would love something in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Dallas, or driving distance to Bentonville.
Great — thanks! One last question: You’ve said her job search has been unsuccessful. Has she been looking for a position in the SF area, the area where you are planning to move, or all over the country?
In the Bay Area, Texas, Arkansas and she applied for a program at the CDC.
Q: “What can you do with a BA in Psychology?
A: “Anything”
Plenty of foreigners with degrees are taking the jobs as well; very clear in not just tech, but the financial sector as well. Americans need not apply...
“Why blame the employer?
If you were looking for an employee, would you take a high school drop out over a college graduate? “
5-7 years ago when jobs were scare employers had the pick of the litter so to speak. So what did they do? They required the employees to have a degree because they could afford to be super picky and the job situation enabled them to get the best employees.
Now it’s the other way around. Employers are having to take people from the bottom of the barrel.
If you were looking for an employee, would you take a high school drop out over a college graduate?
We are talking jobs that require a HS degree but not college.
High school graduate or dropout- not much difference these days.
Many high school graduates are innumerate and illiterate.
High school graduate or dropout- not much difference these days.
Many high school graduates are innumerate and illiterate.
My BIL has a BSAE, MSAE, and PHD Eng. MGT. You are correct as many quit after geometry. Algebra trig helps in calculus II and III as per my BIL. Now, a BSBA and an MBA helps non math types. I took three younger people to college. One shocked me with 30’s on all ACT tests. She got a BSEE and now makes over 100K. She has 40 males under her. The next was my youngest sister. She got a masters and taught school. The last was a girlfriend’s son. He was into art and very good in math. I convinced him to try architecture. He won all kinds of design awards and is with a leading firm. Maybe, I should have been a counselor?
Been that way since the 70s. No more working up from the mailroom.
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