Posted on 12/14/2008 4:39:43 AM PST by Rebelbase
I stopped reading right there. This young woman wants to be a journalist, and isn't smart enough to be reading the news and doing the research that says it's a dying field.
What a pathetic article. These young folks don’t know the meaning of recession or many other kinds of hardships.
And if you had gone to college and taken English Grammar you would have known to write “I wish I had gone” rather than “I wish I had went.”
I made good scratch in the corporate world in my 'suit jobs' wrote in my off hours and had great material to draw from.
In short, I did what I did to survive. I didn't expect to be a rock star straight out of college. Didn't get the big jobs until I'd slugged it in the trenches for several years, buckled down even to earn some financial licenses that helped me write for mutual funds and investment houses. It wasn't all sexy rockstar fun and glamour, but hey -- it paid the bills.
My best friend in grad school just had his seventh novel published, has a film coming out by Scorcese this year, and he drove limos and tended bar in the lean times. Kids today...
She’s hoping for something that will advance a career in her chosen field, print journalism
Brian Miller, 27, is looking for new work, preferably a position that would put his bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and his master’s degree in public health
Jones, a political science major minoring in ethics.
My god! Doesn't anyone major in practical fields anymore!
Brian Miller, 27, is looking for new work, preferably a position that would put his bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and his master’s degree in public health to good use.
“I was in the military for a while. When I got out, I just roamed around and wasted a few years of my life,” said Jones, a political science major minoring in ethics.
I think I see a pattern here.
Doesn’t anyone major in practical fields anymore!
No it requires thinking and hard work yes I will have fries with that.
Life is hard, Lanita. Most young graduates your age live in starter mansions and drive Lexus automobiles. It just isn’t fair. ~ sniff ~
Hey now! I have a BA in English and working on my MA in English Technical Communications, and I'm a systems engineer for a health care organization. Not everyone who goes to college does so in the pursuit of a specific track on which they're staking their lives. I happen to be a computer tinkerer, and I managed to get myself into a great job after college. Some people pursue what interests them, job market be damned! I knew full well that a degree in English wouldn't get me bupkiss, but I excelled in it and have some of my works published as a result.
That being said, these kids need to stop whining! I'm very late GenX (1980), and I spent over a year living with my mom while I got myself on my feet. Thanks to the ministry of Dave Ramsey, I got my life together, paid off my debts, and now I have a beautiful home, a good, stable job, and a decent amount of savings, even though most of that winds up in my gun safe. ;)
The whiny media pisses me off. These kids can find work. So what if they have to run a register at Office Depot for a few months? At least there's work out there to be had! I worked construction, did electrical apprentice work, plumbing, tile, stocked shelves at Publix, ran a Blockbuster video, and spent 4 hours every Saturday in a soup kitchen after I got out of college to make ends meet and occupy my time. These iPod drones don't know how to get off their lazy butts and find something productive to do!
Aren't young people entitled to goods times, prosperity and the life of Riley.
I'm almost GLAD we are facing hard times so the 20 something generation sheds their sense of entitlement mindset.
Things like:
You want me to work more than 8 hours a day and weekends !!
I won't take a job for less then $10.00 hr !!
I can't drive a USED car. Are you kidding me!!
What do you mean I can't have the new 360 X-Box for my birthday!!
You want me to pay rent for my room, but I need my money for the weekend !!
That is a really good idea.
Engineers with minors in languages are actually quite valuable.
Quit whimpering and suck it up, ya bunch of crybabies.
Take a 30 minute walk through a slum in Mumbai or outside of Manila, and watch the people there for a moment, and then come back to the US and its supermarkets with 45 different brands of dog food, and stfu.
1/3 of the people on this planet go to sleep tonight on an empty stomach that aches and growls, and maybe the better half of them will sleep out under the stars with cardboard as a pillow, open sewers a few meters perhaps from their heads at rest.
Or, otherwise, just do us all a favor, button it, and join the US military if you cannot find a job; and put in a few years defending the place that has spoiled you to the inner cores, and give something back to Uncle Sam while you ride this out.
>>[”Overachiever Alexandria Harper’s] reward came at A&T’s December commencement, where she walked the stage a semester ahead of schedule to receive a degree in liberal studies.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but overachievers don’t get degrees in “liberal studies”. They get degrees in Engineering, Accounting, Pre-Med, etc.
Liberal studies, and most degrees that contain the words “studies” or “science”, qualify you for the job of Starbucks barista, and that only after in-store training.
Anti-Political Science, Cheap shot Sarcasm TorpedoTM ARMED. FIRE!!
Does he mean ethics like this?
"In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says."
Cheers!
Hey! That was my career goal.
Where I live, I'm seeing a different type of young folks.
Our Sunday School class at church is all young married couples with children. Several are actively getting out of debt. We planted our first community garden at the church this year. Several of the mothers are proficient sewers and make their own clothes.
Some are struggling, but most are making it on one income and the mothers stay home with the children.
We will weather this economy, but I suspect we may be a very small minority.
“Where I live, I’m seeing a different type of young folks.”
You must live in a different community than I do. I’m glad to hear of your young folks doing well. It’s encouraging.
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