Posted on 01/12/2024 7:49:57 AM PST by george76
91% of small business owners are concerned that "educational institutions are fostering unrealistic expectations among students regarding post-graduation and professional life."
An alarming number of small business owners are concerned that American colleges and universities are creating far-fetched expectations for graduates as they transition into the workforce, according to a new survey.
The Freedom Economy Index, a project of Red Balloon and PublicSquare, surveyed over 70,000 small business owners and found that 91% of respondents are concerned that “educational institutions are fostering unrealistic expectations among students regarding post-graduation and professional life.”
Small business owners who responded to the survey reported that ”salary levels,” “amount of work hours required,” and the “difficulty of work to be performed” were among the top three challenges that college graduates face when entering the workforce.
63% of respondents said that college graduates often have “unrealistic expectations on salary levels.” 62% reported that graduates have a hard time adjusting to the hours of work required for the job, and 50% said that graduates “have wrong expectations about the difficulty of work to be performed.”
One small business owner who responded to the survey said that college graduates “expect it to start at the top without having to work.”
”No actual ‘job’ training. They come in with mountains of debt and no experience,” one small business owner said.
”Inability to work independently, constant need for validation, unrealistic expectations,” said a small business owner when responding to the survey.
These people come out of college more worried about their DEI score than actually being a functional part of society,” another small business owner said.
Nearly half of those who responded to the survey said they have concerns about the “alignment of diploma subject matter with real-world business needs.”
I’ve been stating this for 20 years-—college is a waste and only serves to indoctrinate. Learn a trade——college is a waste of money!
BTTT
We’ve dug ourselves a hole.
Fingers can be pointed in a lot of directions — government, high schools, universities, parents, students, society, social media, etc. etc.
It’s not a simple problem, and it is a problem that needs some sort of solution. Telling young people to “suck it up and work hard” is, in my opinion, not a well thought out strategy to solving this.
I can’t blame colleges, really.
When I was 20 or 21 I was *SO* much smarter than my parents and professors, to say nothing of any potential bosses! What decrepit old dinosaurs, grasping at the dying remains of how things were. I was the future, the world would fall at my feet once exposed to my utter brilliance and visionary genius!
Needless to say, there was a sharp learning curve ahead :-)
They have no work ethic either, What do you mean I have to start at the bottom and work my way up, you know how smart I am, look at my papers, they say I am smart... Wheres my check and when is my break, oh I need to leave early today to play with my friends, what about my raise.
The participation trophy generation.
As a late teen early 20 something I decided to go the trade route and never looked back.
I’m proud of my career in aviation maintenance, retired at 59 1/2 and live very comfortably.
I credit my parents for instilling in me dicipline and a solid work ethic......things I’m afraid a lot of young people these days are sadly missing.
Sometimes a desired career field requires college. The hard sciences and engineering certainly do. But there is a quickly diminishing list of qualified schools for those.
Those Women’s Studies and such degrees are worthless.
I have a cousin that has a PhD in History.
He’s a long haul trucker, make boo-coo dough!..............
It is if you start telling them at eight years old.
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Yes. I think that is the sort of thing people need to grasp.
For better or worse, after WWII, the Baby Boomer generation was often raised in accordance Dr. Benjamin Spock’s bestselling book. Mothers rushed out to buy it so that they could learn how to raise children.
Something like that (hopefully better than Spock) needs to come along to tell parents to avoid government schools, avoid participation trophies, avoid universities. Raise children to be respectful and to have actual real world skills. People need to “parent” differently.
And government schools should be shutdown.
And attending universities should be discouraged — if you want to be a doctor or engineer ... maybe. But why get a college degree if you’re just going to work for an insurance company?
Businesses need to offer On The Job training to willing people who can start at the bottom.
And I think we need to find some solution for affordable housing. Someone who is 18, and just joined a job training program should be able to move out of Mom’s basement and actually live in some sort of apartment situation with others. If zoning laws block that, change the laws. If other laws force rents to be $2500 a month, then change those damn laws.
Make changes so that the younger generation can succeed.
Our society has raised children horribly, then thrown them into the deep end of the pool. And we call them names as they drown.
“college is a waste of money”
If it was just cash that was spent that would be correct—but these days it is worse than that if large amounts of debt are added to the equation.
It is like entering a horse race with a concrete block—a tough race just got a lot tougher.
DEI Score? Wazzat? Recent college grads prefer to start at the top and be around minstrels and queer culture- I guess the workplace is apposed to be more of a singing and dancing 🕺 place than a workplace. Ok.
A good 60 year old mechanic is miles and miles ahead and of any newly minted “engineer” that is thrown into our industry-(oil and gas) It’s a disgrace that the “engineer” is making 3 times what the wrench twisters are making.
Not just colleges.
Public schools, parents, and media.
They should all start with my first real job boss as I was working while attending college. When he hired me at a bank he said I came with great recommendations and was attending a reputable university. After I said I was majoring in accounting minoring in finance he said well we start here at the bottom and in this case the bottom is the file room in the basement and at minimum wage. I was a tad stunned but realized I needed a job and others already there knew what they were doing.
After a short time I was promoted out of the file area to part time teller and other duties as needed. Not long after I got the job I came into work wearing a slightly pastel pink shirt. He hauled me into his office and asked: you a commie (this was in 63). I said no, why? He said look around out there and note all the men here have white shirts. He said take your ass over to the mens shop across the street and come back wearing a white shirt. BTW, that is your lunch time.
I worked there five years. Ended up running the night processing department and picking up programming skills. Above all learned that career progress is earned, not given.
For my entire career life, I was directed by results driven leaders. I tried to instill that concept for those who worked for me. I did not care if you had a PHd or a high school diploma, what counted was the numbers at the end of the day. I noted over time there has been an erosion in the principle of accomplishment leading to rewards. We have devolved into a complete entitlement society i.e. I am entitled to that six figure income or that promotion or whatever. Happy to now be retired watching the circus and hope I don’t have to pick up after the circus parade passes by.
Why, that's what we all did. Why is this generation incapable of doing the same? Your low expectation are part of the problem. I'm still waiting to see that white privilege I'm said to be entitled to but it never slowed me down.
What is your well thought out strategy to solving this?
They want to start where their parents are after decades of hard work and saving their money.
They have no concept of what we started with, which was nothing. We rented initially and bought a house that was a real disaster, quite the fixer upper project. We did massive amounts of remodeling including dealing with structural issues, like some idiot cutting a doorway into a supporting wall and not reinforcing it at all.
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