Posted on 12/29/2007 4:25:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
.S. News & World Report, which has made a name for itself by ranking and announcing the best colleges every year, is now ranking and listing the best careers for young people. A comparison of the latest lists shows a shocking disconnect and makes for dispiriting holiday reading.
While the price of a college education has skyrocketed far faster than inflation, many careers for which colleges prepare their graduates are disappearing. U.S. News' Best Careers guide concludes, "college grads might want to consider blue-collar careers" because bachelor's degree holders "are having trouble finding jobs that require college-graduate skills."
Incredibly, U.S. News is telling college graduates to look for jobs that do not require a college diploma. Among the 31 best opportunities for 2008 are the careers of firefighter, hairstylist, cosmetologist, locksmith and security-system technician.
Where did the higher-skill jobs go? Both large and small companies are "quietly increasing off-shoring efforts."
Ten years ago, we were told we really didn't need manufacturing because it can be done more cheaply elsewhere, that auto workers and others should move to information-age jobs. But now the information jobs are moving offshore, too, as well as marketing research and even many varieties of innovation.
The flight overseas includes professional as well as low-wage jobs, with engineering jobs offshored to India and China. Thousands of bright Asian engineers are willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages, which is why Boeing just signed a 10-year, $1 billion-a-year deal with a government-run company in India.
Society has been telling high school students that college is the ticket to get a life, and politicians are pandering to parents' desire for their children to be better educated and so have a higher standard of living.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
It's very expensive but he will have to have financial aid.
Have him read those aid papers very carefully. The preponderance of financial aid these days is in the form of loans. Many students have not been careful and ended up in financial bondage. Have him take a look at some of the stories on studentloanjustice.org and read Anya Kamenetz's book Generation Debt. Ms. Kamenetz is an unashamed liberal and gets downright whiny in many places, but still wrote a very eye-opening book.
LOL!
Had that post been posted as a thread at DU, it would have received 100+ replies and 30+ recommendations.
“I recently received a Master’s Degree in Accounting and I cannot find a good job. The degree seems to be worthless.”
Why not a BS degree and then a CPA which is the old fashioned normal career progression?
And then for an advanced degree it would be MBA. What I have outlined would be what most enployers would expect.
A Master’s in Accounting might impress a government agency, or be on a path to a professor career.
Very hard to believe -- Sarbannes has led to a huge demand for accountants--were your grades that poor?
Do you have your CPA? A master’s in accounting without a CPA is a waste of time.
“I think George Bush eliminated the accounting jobs and outsourced them to India.”
Try getting a life...
TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS outsourced those jobs, NOT George Bush...
A friend compiles dailies, faxes them to India at the end of the day, and at the end of the week, a fully compiled accounting report is waiting in the email box, and all payroll information is already sent to ADP, at a FRACTION of the cost of an in-house accountant.
Indians don’t take or demand FMLA’s for thier pets, either.
bump
Las Vegas/Clark County imports elementary teachers from the PHILLIPINES, not because they can’t find American Applicants, but because they can’t find any that will work for the Union-Mandated beginning wages....
“No one seems to have told the Georgia Dept. of Ed”
Georgia ranks something like 48th in the nation in education.
As a senior manager who hires in the IT area, if I don’t see a degree, I tend to wonder why not. They are not that hard to get, and having one says something about the person. Its not quite to the point of no degree no consideration, but its close.
You made the decision to take out loans.
The public schools are begging for teachers. The New York Post recently had an article on the teacher shortage in the City.
The reason NYC has a teacher shortage is that teachers are in physical danger at many of those public schools. Same thing in the barrio schools in L.A.
Out here in the burbs, ed schools have been luring change of lifers to grad schoool to get their teaching certificate in one year. Promise of a 96% placement rate
As many found out that the placement rate is as ED techs.
Not many teaching jobs in this neck of the woods.
Not as proud perhaps as you might be had he earned his MBA from say, ahem, Boston University...
you are evil!
Join the Army and after basic training apply for OCS. Become an officer, get real world experience possibly in the accounting or finance field. Pay off your student loans and see the world. After you put in 20 years retire with a pension, and seek a job out in the civilian world. Employers will be beating down your door to hire you.
Or sit there and whine a lot. Your choice.
Thank you very much.
Don’t worry, Hillary will save you.
Well, there's that, too. In fact, that's part of what I tell my incoming 9th graders - "If you think you can be competitive 'just getting by' with a diploma from a school in Georgia, think again..."
I rent from enterprise. It is a privately held company and everyone there is so gung ho and pleasant.
Are you a CPA?
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