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American college grads: Homebodies with worthless degrees
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| October 15, 2009
| Justin Fox
Posted on 10/24/2009 11:44:00 AM PDT by george76
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:44:00 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
I am glad I have an EE degree and have my PE.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:45:33 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: george76
I met two lovely young 20-somethings in a dining group I belong to. Both ready to get their MBAs. Didn’t have the heart to tell them that their degrees were close to worthless.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:46:02 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: george76
Souns like a self-serving statement. Multinationals like to hire foreigneers because they are cheap labor.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:47:27 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Perdogg
The same, but had I to do over again, I’d have started a business and cheated my ass off in taxes.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:47:29 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: george76
But too many of the will be reliable, dependent, Democrat voters. Obama will be pleased and the education grants will flow to make more of the same.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:47:50 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: BunnySlippers
did you get their digits?
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:48:50 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: george76
This isn't new. Twenty plus years ago, it was very difficult to find metallurgical or chemical engineers unless you considered foreign nationals schooled in the USA. It was even more difficult to find American graduates who would relocate to mining towns.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:52:22 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: george76
To play the devil's advocate:
The only way I would expatriate from my beloved United States to work overseas is with a robust employment contract.
Employers can be equally quirky and flaky, so it's a two-way street.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:54:39 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: C19fan
What do they pay a mid-career biomed technician? What do they pay a mid-career PhD biochemist with a solid track record of pharmaceutical development? What do they pay the MBA's/JDs in their finance, marketing and government relations departments?
I think they will discover that they have incentivized their own personnel problems.
To: BunnySlippers
I met two lovely young 20-somethings in a dining group I belong to. Both ready to get their MBAs. Didnt have the heart to tell them that their degrees were close to worthless. Our son has a bachelor's in info systems, is about to earn his MBA and has a great job, now and will get a raise and continue in that job when he completes this degree. Of his graduating class of MBAs, most are already employed, or have jobs lined up (and unemployment in our area is around 12 percent in our area.)
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:55:54 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: george76
Maybe this guy should know that a lot of Americans - after spending a ton of dough and in some cases busting butt for 4 years to get a degree - have no inclination to live in a polluted, crime ridden $hithole so the multinational can have a wider profit margin.
That said, I'm still looking for jobs in Singapore.
FWIW, I have worked in Korea and Russia - you see a lot of Alaskans and folks from Down Under working OS. Don't know why, you just do.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:58:46 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
To: Perdogg
I am glad I have an EE degree and have my PE.Ditto but for an ME degree.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:59:15 AM PDT
by
SteamShovel
(When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
To: george76
Life is easy and hard at the same time. Hard, if you can't find someone to employ you, and easy if you can sell a product or service to a customer.
No matter what age, sex, color, etc..
5.56mm
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:59:28 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: george76
What he is REALLY saying is they work 60 hours a week for 1/2 of what Americans want..
If our universities are so bad, why is our local University’s medical. dental and engineering schools filled with Muslims, Indians, Chinese etc??
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:59:34 AM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: dawn53
Congrats and good luck to your sons.
In the stock market, my field, I do see a big preference for advanced degrees. But I don’t see a big difference in pay for those who got the degrees and those who advanced through the ranks.
Having said that, employers also gauge people who have advanced degrees as being individuals who can stick to a plan and complete it.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:59:51 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: C19fan
There are plenty of high-skilled, scientific/technically degreed Americans.
The problem with them is that they have illusions about being middle class or that they are no longer 25 years old. Corporations talk about “entry-level” positions requiring at least 5 years of solid experience and pay not much more than unskilled labor.
I would never encourage a young person to go into a scientific field unless they were curious and had a fallback plan for making a living.
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posted on
10/24/2009 11:59:51 AM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: george76
I had this exact discussion with my coworkers 2 weeks ago.
The is no longer the societal stigma attached to adult children, who can afford to live on their own, still living with their parents.
And I think that changed within the last 10 years or so.
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posted on
10/24/2009 12:00:08 PM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: george76
However, our university system produces the finest commie loons in the world.
To: george76
worthless degrees
Disagree. I wouldn't give back a second of my education, and am considering going back and getting a bit more.
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posted on
10/24/2009 12:01:04 PM PDT
by
mysterio
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