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!
Hey! That was my career goal.
Agreed, but it's probably the reporter, not the kids. If you look through the reporter's whine it actually looks like 20 something kids going through a normal adjustment to real life. My 20 something kids are still living with us so I don't really have any room to speak...just making a joke while it was hot.