You don’t go to school just to get job training. Should the talented college basketball player give up because he isn’t good enough or talented enough for the NBA? So much in our society and life depends on knowledge and appreciation of things beyond earning a paycheck.
I graduated ITC in 1961 with a BSEE in electronics, and began work one month later for $78/ month!Industry wouldn’t touch anyone that was draft-eligible.(Three years in US Army ended with a year at Ankara, Turkey at a “secret” cold war listening post – on a tall hill, near a major highway, distinctive Army buildings, and acres of antennas!)
@ r2varney – Time to ditch the judgemental attitude. If you do the work for 4+ years to get a degree in a field that interests you, then pound the pavement for a few more years only to be told you are unneeded, overqualified, underqualified … and end up driving a cab, I think you are ‘entitled’ to feel disenfranchised.
Why bother with the education if you can’t get a job in the field? People with graduate degrees can’t get jobs in their fields. People with graduate degrees and experience are forced out of their fields, because no one will pay them a living wage, or any wage. You can start at the bottom in a different field – if you can afford the ‘retraining’.
Skilled labour is no longer wanted. Unskilled labour may do a crappy job, but it’s way cheaper, and it’s good enough to satisfy management. In engineering as long as you have one guy with a ticket to sign off the work, you’re good to go. The rest of the crew is disposable.
freeholder1 over 11 years ago
yeah, that’s what my college drop out education got me, too. Life as a speed bump. Although it beats sliding down the razorblade of life.
bluskies over 11 years ago
Yeah. With the right education, you could be a pothole- a government job, with lifetime security.
RetroJenny over 11 years ago
Even a college education guarantees no future these days.
el_flesh over 11 years ago
I keep hoping that corporate greed is a feature of the baby boomers and will die off with them.
But it’s probably human nature.
jtviper7 over 11 years ago
Q. Why did the turtle cross the road ?
tlynnch over 11 years ago
College education in the wrong field yields poor prospects. But in the right fields, STEM yields great prospects.
brewwitch over 11 years ago
You don’t go to school just to get job training. Should the talented college basketball player give up because he isn’t good enough or talented enough for the NBA? So much in our society and life depends on knowledge and appreciation of things beyond earning a paycheck.
mineresidents over 11 years ago
That’s young Mitch McConnell getting practicing for a career in politics.
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
I graduated ITC in 1961 with a BSEE in electronics, and began work one month later for $78/ month!Industry wouldn’t touch anyone that was draft-eligible.(Three years in US Army ended with a year at Ankara, Turkey at a “secret” cold war listening post – on a tall hill, near a major highway, distinctive Army buildings, and acres of antennas!)
Hawthorne over 11 years ago
@ r2varney – Time to ditch the judgemental attitude. If you do the work for 4+ years to get a degree in a field that interests you, then pound the pavement for a few more years only to be told you are unneeded, overqualified, underqualified … and end up driving a cab, I think you are ‘entitled’ to feel disenfranchised.
Why bother with the education if you can’t get a job in the field? People with graduate degrees can’t get jobs in their fields. People with graduate degrees and experience are forced out of their fields, because no one will pay them a living wage, or any wage. You can start at the bottom in a different field – if you can afford the ‘retraining’.
Skilled labour is no longer wanted. Unskilled labour may do a crappy job, but it’s way cheaper, and it’s good enough to satisfy management. In engineering as long as you have one guy with a ticket to sign off the work, you’re good to go. The rest of the crew is disposable.