About half of America's new college graduates are working in high school-level jobs like food service and retail: report

[martybegan]

Where are you going to get a decent high paying job with degrees in women's studies or anthropology?

You can, but you need to get your Doctorate, and then find an opening at a college teaching women's studies or anthropology.

 

[boevans]

OP means nothing if the figures cannot be compared by decade for the last seven decades.

 

[lg325]

George HWBush when first graduating from Yale University could only find a job sweeping warehouses in Waco Texas.
A degree is a tool to help get you into a top-paying job it is no guarantee of success.

 

[Unkotare]

These are the people that make fun people who don't have degrees, whose getting the last laugh.

MSN

"Who's"

 

[Unkotare]

George HWBush when first graduating from Yale University could only find a job sweeping warehouses in Waco Texas.
A degree is a tool to help get you into a top-paying job it is no guarantee of success.

Bad example.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And to make matters worse, Biden is making us pay for these useless degrees by forgiving student loans!

College Means Daddy Buying Dummy a Top Job

The taxpayer is not responsible for what the heiristocracy caused. Quit being its human sacrifice and demand that trust funds be confiscated to pay for this scam.

 

[Unkotare]

College Means Daddy Buying Dummy a Top Job

The taxpayer is not responsible for what the heiristocracy caused. Quit being its human sacrifice and demand that trust funds be confiscated to pay for this scam.

You are a bitterly envious and insecure person.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I think the U.S. needs a new model: all kids work a full year, or even two, before going on to college. It will show them what type of unskilled jobs await them after college if they don’t pick a marketable major. Plus, they could save some money toward tuition, and also mature a bit to know what they want to study.

In the Present System, We Get What We Pay For

Just like MLB recruits top high school players and pays them a huge signing bonus to go through baseball's equivalent of college education, the corporations should recruit the top students, or have them apply and prove they've got talent. As a substitute for corporate taxes, the businesses should offer them highly paid professional training.

Actually, if a corporation did this on its own without a tax substitute, it would be equivalent to an NFL team getting the whole first round of draft choices. Within a few years, it would totally dominate its market.

Also, the universities should be forced to offer degrees in job-related subjects only. Third, the corporation could have retirees or others teach the recruits the school subjects that they'll need to know on the job, excluding irrelevant parts of even those subjects ("need to know" selectivity). That would do away with college "education" altogether.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

"Who's"

You carelessly missed "the people who." Or maybe it was because you think of people as inanimate objects.

 

[Unkotare]

“Job-related subjects only”?

 

[Grumblenuts]

You carelessly missed "the people who." Or maybe it was because you think of people as inanimate objects.

No, that's a misquote. In addition to using whose instead of who's, AMart dropped the word "of" between "fun" and "people"
Make fun of people who, not "make fun people who"

 

[AMart]

Is within one year of graduation? Not all that surprising and not really a big deal.

WE post links so one can read them,

About 27% of underemployed graduates eventually advance to college-level jobs in the next 10 years. But for every 100 graduates, 45 will still be underemployed a decade after earning their degrees, the report said.

 

[AMart]

OP means nothing if the figures cannot be compared by decade for the last seven decades.

RIF, and decades ago college was cheap.
Today these dipchits leave with 5 and 6 figure debt.

About 27% of underemployed graduates eventually advance to college-level jobs in the next 10 years. But for every 100 graduates, 45 will still be underemployed a decade after earning their degrees, the report said.

 

[AMart]

It's amazing to see these young adults borrow all this money to be taught or indoctrinated for information that is free online. Crazy.

 

[sparky]

(2) They would be wiser to attend trade school, but some communities insist that every student attend college. It makes the local board of education look good.

Thx for that Parser

One can make a grand living as skilled labor, yet i meet youngsters doing time in construction waiting for their dream job, cuz their shill HS counselors told them they wouldn't amount to jack sh*t if they didn't sign up for higher ed, and now they think it's the only way to pay their debt

Nothing could be further from the truth


At the risk of my bluecollar redneck becoming a tad obnoxious here, we've a classist issue

WE built this country, every road, every car, every house, even the 'puter you'll respond on

~S~

 

[initforme]

There's too many people in the workforce.

 

[initforme]

We could have them enter the workforce at 18 so they live a miserable long life in america

 

[Unkotare]

...decades ago college was cheap...

No it wasn't.

 

[Unkotare]

There's too many people in the workforce.

Absurd.

 

[Unkotare]

It's amazing to see these young adults borrow all this money to be taught or indoctrinated for information that is free online. Crazy.

You really think a college education is just a library card? You've seen too many bad old movies.