Righhtttt, they’re missing SO much potential high grade education when they miss out on a regular university….I’ll take my chances at Moody in Chicago instead of the University of Chicago.http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/students-taught-oral-sex-tricks-and-more/
The University of Southern Maine has a new president, and the new school philosophy is to focus on creating a workforce for Maine jobs. There is a very minimal tech industry presence, and the biggest employer is the Maine Medical system, so nursing is now the primary focus. The biggest contributor to the school is Hannaford’s grocery stores, which requires a college degree to hold any supervisory position, no matter how minimal. So essentially, an entire university system now focuses on creating nurses (extremely necessary up here where 60% of the population are senior citizens) or grocery workers.
Many entry-level jobs just don’t exist anymore. A generation or two ago, telephone companies had computer gurus, but also had people who climbed the poles. Now there’s very little pole-climbing, and you will need an advanced engineering/computer/design degree just to be considered for work.
History majors don’t fit so well into this job market, but we all have to eat, and as has been mentioned above, what boss wouldn’t rather have a college graduate, even for entry-level work? This means we have over-educated fast-food workers, and those with high school degrees (or some high school experience) will be shut out of those lines of work.
We cannot afford to waste minds and educations this way, and we need to be able to have meaningful work for members of our society who are less prepared and/or less capable. The current job market discriminates against both.
Sorry, ConserveGov, but having had to actually interview, hire, and train several hundred of those “respectable university” grads over a fifteen year period I have come to believe that the real program is four years of party, drugs, alcohol, and pretending.
I swear it was not that when I went, but it seems to be getting worse and worse each year, with this year having three applicants misspell the name of the University from which they graduated.
One of the issues I have is that I have an MBA.[]…meaning that if the manager who hires me ever falls down on the job, I’d be next in line to replace them.[]As you can imagine, there aren’t a lot of managers who are willing to hire someone who could have their job.
Let me say that it is a harder job to supervise people with Master Degrees when all you officially have is a high school diploma. Any degree helps regardless of your experience and knowledge. I worked for many educated idiots before becoming the idiot in charge.
What sort of job do you think your wife will be able to land once she graduates ..?
The catch to the entry level position is that a university graduate should be able to reasonably expect an entry level position in her field. These days (actually for some time now) that has not been happening.
This person is a graduate of some university somewhere, and should reasonably be able to expect an entry position in her field, shouldn’t she?
To add insult to injury, the manager is quite likely to say something like ‘sure, but if you don’t show up tomorrow, you can show up next day for your check and don’t bother to come back’.
And if you actively support Ns, broads, and queers having equal rights, even if you are none of the above, you will be blacklisted and will never find a job in this colony of the corporate empire.
ransomdstone about 11 years ago
Capitalism at it’s best.
Don Winchester Premium Member about 11 years ago
Righhtttt, they’re missing SO much potential high grade education when they miss out on a regular university….I’ll take my chances at Moody in Chicago instead of the University of Chicago.http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/students-taught-oral-sex-tricks-and-more/
rpmurray about 11 years ago
That’s all a liberal arts degree is worth.
Fourcrows about 11 years ago
The University of Southern Maine has a new president, and the new school philosophy is to focus on creating a workforce for Maine jobs. There is a very minimal tech industry presence, and the biggest employer is the Maine Medical system, so nursing is now the primary focus. The biggest contributor to the school is Hannaford’s grocery stores, which requires a college degree to hold any supervisory position, no matter how minimal. So essentially, an entire university system now focuses on creating nurses (extremely necessary up here where 60% of the population are senior citizens) or grocery workers.
I Play One On TV about 11 years ago
Many entry-level jobs just don’t exist anymore. A generation or two ago, telephone companies had computer gurus, but also had people who climbed the poles. Now there’s very little pole-climbing, and you will need an advanced engineering/computer/design degree just to be considered for work.
History majors don’t fit so well into this job market, but we all have to eat, and as has been mentioned above, what boss wouldn’t rather have a college graduate, even for entry-level work? This means we have over-educated fast-food workers, and those with high school degrees (or some high school experience) will be shut out of those lines of work.
We cannot afford to waste minds and educations this way, and we need to be able to have meaningful work for members of our society who are less prepared and/or less capable. The current job market discriminates against both.
colcam about 11 years ago
Sorry, ConserveGov, but having had to actually interview, hire, and train several hundred of those “respectable university” grads over a fifteen year period I have come to believe that the real program is four years of party, drugs, alcohol, and pretending.
I swear it was not that when I went, but it seems to be getting worse and worse each year, with this year having three applicants misspell the name of the University from which they graduated.
Ironhold about 11 years ago
One of the issues I have is that I have an MBA.[]…meaning that if the manager who hires me ever falls down on the job, I’d be next in line to replace them.[]As you can imagine, there aren’t a lot of managers who are willing to hire someone who could have their job.
Justice22 about 11 years ago
Let me say that it is a harder job to supervise people with Master Degrees when all you officially have is a high school diploma. Any degree helps regardless of your experience and knowledge. I worked for many educated idiots before becoming the idiot in charge.
ARodney about 11 years ago
Not a nice thing to say about all recent Republican presidents.
Simon_Jester about 11 years ago
Who was it that tried to reclassify burger flipping as a manufacturing job? Was that Reagan, or Bush 1?
Hawthorne about 11 years ago
That’s all true.
What sort of job do you think your wife will be able to land once she graduates ..?
The catch to the entry level position is that a university graduate should be able to reasonably expect an entry level position in her field. These days (actually for some time now) that has not been happening.
Hawthorne about 11 years ago
That’s not the issue, though, is it?
This person is a graduate of some university somewhere, and should reasonably be able to expect an entry position in her field, shouldn’t she?
To add insult to injury, the manager is quite likely to say something like ‘sure, but if you don’t show up tomorrow, you can show up next day for your check and don’t bother to come back’.
hippogriff about 11 years ago
And if you actively support Ns, broads, and queers having equal rights, even if you are none of the above, you will be blacklisted and will never find a job in this colony of the corporate empire.
Simon_Jester about 11 years ago
If you’re making six figures how come you’re only just NOW starting to save for retiremtent. lie-boy?
Simon_Jester about 11 years ago
Oh I dunno, look how far it got Michelle Bachmann
Justice22 about 11 years ago
“I have an engineering degree and make over 6 figures a year. Now that’s right.”.OK, Now do you make 7, 8 or 9 figures a year?