Posted on 12/02/2009 10:40:56 AM PST by central_va
“In my opinion, our standard of living was a bubble that is now bursting. We, as a country and as individuals, did not live within our means. Unsustainable standard of living....POP!”
True that. :)
few who are uneducated will do well. Entrepreneurs can succeed but most will suffer if poorly educated.
lol...or how about what “you do for me”...in other words I am a hard worker and loyal to my work. Will you be loyal to me?
Is there an echo in here?
“Machine operator making $100K???”
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My thoughts exactly. TO hell with college, give me a machine operator job!!!!!
This is exactly what happened in Western Pennsylvania in the early 1980’s. The steel industry went away almost overnight, and tens of thousands of jobs vanished. They were union jobs with high pay and prime benefits, and people usually went into them right out of high-school because the money was so good. Once they went away most of those workers never again found a situation that could ever approach what they lost. Many people let go in their 40’s and 50’s had to stumble along for years in a series of part-time minimum wage jobs. (they still keep on pulling that Democrat party lever though, cause Dagnabit, they just KNOW one of these days we will elect the RIGHT politician and all of those high-paying union steel jobs will just come flooding back!)
I value education and I am doing everything I can to make sure my kids go to college. Supply and demand will still influence wages though. Lots of highly educated people are out of work. So are lots of uneducated people. Both group are hurting. Our economy is a mess and it will not be fixed anytime soon. Good luck to those who are doing what they need to to survive.
In most cases, getting any number of undergrad or grad degrees makes you more competitive when looking for a job because of the following:
It demonstrates that you are willing to make all kinds of sacrifices to obey rules that others set for you, no matter how nonsensical or outdated the tasks those rules impose upon you.
That demonstrates you will be a docile worker--that no matter how distasteful or nonsensical the task your employer assigns you, you will comply.
For work in most fields, you only really start to learn how to do the job after you start the job.
I use things I learned in CS and Math everyday....I guess I don’t fit into the “most cases” category.
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