Colleges are "training people to sit quietly for long periods of time"
i greatly admire barbara ehrenreich... i don't know her, i've never even seen a picture of her, but i think she's someone i would enjoy talking to very much...
my daughter graduated from college a year ago last month with a double major in spanish and communications... i figured that, with the bi-lingual society we're living in these days and the need to communicate across cultures and language barriers, she would be snapped up... after a year of part-time babysitting and nannying, she finally took a clerk's job in a bookstore... thank goodness she's a book-lover...
yes, i'm speaking with a father's bias, but i also know good people when i see them and any employer who hired this young woman would be scoring a coup... she's intelligent, competent, reliable, responsible, pleasant, easy to get along with, has great people skills, and is willing to learn and do what it takes to get the job done... and she's working as a clerk in a bookstore...
on the other end of the spectrum, i was unemployed and looking for work 2 1/2 years ago... i have an impressive resume and a ton of experience and skills... i sent out over 70 job apps... they generated two phone interviews, one in-person interview, and one job offer - a $7.28 an hour spot manning a phone in an airline call center...
barbara ehrenreich is absolutely correct...
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[A] lot of graduates are simply not going to find jobs appropriate to their credentials. They're going to be wait staff. They're going to be call-center operators. Their twenties could be spent like that. I recently got Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute to do some research on this. It's still tentative, but he found that 17% of people in jobs that do not require college degrees have them. Those are very often people in their twenties who can't get professional-type employment, or people in their fifties who have been through one too many lay-off and are no longer employable because they're quote too old.
my daughter graduated from college a year ago last month with a double major in spanish and communications... i figured that, with the bi-lingual society we're living in these days and the need to communicate across cultures and language barriers, she would be snapped up... after a year of part-time babysitting and nannying, she finally took a clerk's job in a bookstore... thank goodness she's a book-lover...
yes, i'm speaking with a father's bias, but i also know good people when i see them and any employer who hired this young woman would be scoring a coup... she's intelligent, competent, reliable, responsible, pleasant, easy to get along with, has great people skills, and is willing to learn and do what it takes to get the job done... and she's working as a clerk in a bookstore...
on the other end of the spectrum, i was unemployed and looking for work 2 1/2 years ago... i have an impressive resume and a ton of experience and skills... i sent out over 70 job apps... they generated two phone interviews, one in-person interview, and one job offer - a $7.28 an hour spot manning a phone in an airline call center...
barbara ehrenreich is absolutely correct...
Now, so many jobs insist on a college education. I have no idea why. I think they're just training people to sit quietly for long periods of time.Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
6/06/2006
