Can you believe it? In this day and age?
OK - I'm getting ahead of myself.
I read an article today about poor, poor graduates -- over 50% apparently-- who can't find jobs.
Here's the link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-2-graduates-jobless-underemployed-140300522.html
At first brush, it sounds horrible. Tsk, tsk...
Until...
You read far enough to lose all empathy with them. In fact - I can only call them suckers. Dupes. Marks who's been scammed by the so-called education system, their own ignorance, greed and stupidity.
Harsh?
Because, the people who are working "below" their education, the so called 'under-employed' or those who end up working in a totally different field than their major, the so-called 'mal-employed' have chosen majors for which there is no economic use.
Can you believe? --- drum roll please --- they chose such majors as Creative Writing!
I'm baffled. WHY would anyone do that I ask myself.
OK. Fine. Whatever. It's his or her life. To each her own.
Choosing a major is not easy.
I've seen the extremes while at university:
On the one side, I knew a girl in university who was an English major. When I asked her what she planned to do with that degree, she answered:
"I don't care if I have to wait tables later. I am going to study what I'm interested in now."
I don't agree with her, but I at least respect her. She knew what she wanted and was willing to pay the price.
Then on the other side were people --many-- getting into the Business or Engineering schools ONLY because that's where the bucks and prestige were.
OK. Fair enough. Each knew what they were biting off and were fully prepared for the consequences.
What I find nauseating are those who --like squealing pigs-- are either willfully stupid, stubborn, obtuse and just plain block-headed....
OR...
who truly are IDIOTS who are not educated, cannot think and have learned nothing and then
CRY FOUL!
Oh....poor poor me.... (sniff, sniff).
Come on. Society has been convulsing with tectonic changes for the last 25 years.
Seriously.
How could anyone today even THINK you could find a job paying a living wage with a Creative Writing degree?
If I am an entrepreneur running a small company -- and most new businesses are small. In fact, the most vibrant part of the economy, the backbone, the ones that do most of the hiring are Small businesses.
Let's do a little though exercise:
As a small business owner - would YOU have any use for a Creative Writing graduate?
Let's see:
Can he or she...
Sell?
Write marketing materials?
Keep my books?
Program or network my computers?
Manage my client database?
Run my office?
...........
Hmmm..... No on all counts?
Get the picture?
Multiply that several million times.
Sounds ridiculous that someone would choose such a useless major - doesn't it?...
Only to be bitterly surprised AFTER graduation?
Could it be --- (gasp!) that in 4 or 5 years our lauded graduate never once engaged in the preceeding thought excercise?
Either because he or she was TOO OBTUSE or TOO DENSE...
In the end, it sounds to me like these people are, if anything, OVER employed --- earning as much if not MORE than they are truly worth.
OK - I'm getting ahead of myself.
I read an article today about poor, poor graduates -- over 50% apparently-- who can't find jobs.
Here's the link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-2-graduates-jobless-underemployed-140300522.html
At first brush, it sounds horrible. Tsk, tsk...
Until...
You read far enough to lose all empathy with them. In fact - I can only call them suckers. Dupes. Marks who's been scammed by the so-called education system, their own ignorance, greed and stupidity.
Harsh?
Because, the people who are working "below" their education, the so called 'under-employed' or those who end up working in a totally different field than their major, the so-called 'mal-employed' have chosen majors for which there is no economic use.
Can you believe? --- drum roll please --- they chose such majors as Creative Writing!
I'm baffled. WHY would anyone do that I ask myself.
OK. Fine. Whatever. It's his or her life. To each her own.
Choosing a major is not easy.
I've seen the extremes while at university:
On the one side, I knew a girl in university who was an English major. When I asked her what she planned to do with that degree, she answered:
"I don't care if I have to wait tables later. I am going to study what I'm interested in now."
I don't agree with her, but I at least respect her. She knew what she wanted and was willing to pay the price.
Then on the other side were people --many-- getting into the Business or Engineering schools ONLY because that's where the bucks and prestige were.
OK. Fair enough. Each knew what they were biting off and were fully prepared for the consequences.
What I find nauseating are those who --like squealing pigs-- are either willfully stupid, stubborn, obtuse and just plain block-headed....
OR...
who truly are IDIOTS who are not educated, cannot think and have learned nothing and then
CRY FOUL!
Oh....poor poor me.... (sniff, sniff).
Come on. Society has been convulsing with tectonic changes for the last 25 years.
Seriously.
How could anyone today even THINK you could find a job paying a living wage with a Creative Writing degree?
If I am an entrepreneur running a small company -- and most new businesses are small. In fact, the most vibrant part of the economy, the backbone, the ones that do most of the hiring are Small businesses.
Let's do a little though exercise:
As a small business owner - would YOU have any use for a Creative Writing graduate?
Let's see:
Can he or she...
Sell?
Write marketing materials?
Keep my books?
Program or network my computers?
Manage my client database?
Run my office?
...........
Hmmm..... No on all counts?
Get the picture?
Multiply that several million times.
Sounds ridiculous that someone would choose such a useless major - doesn't it?...
Only to be bitterly surprised AFTER graduation?
Could it be --- (gasp!) that in 4 or 5 years our lauded graduate never once engaged in the preceeding thought excercise?
Either because he or she was TOO OBTUSE or TOO DENSE...
In the end, it sounds to me like these people are, if anything, OVER employed --- earning as much if not MORE than they are truly worth.
