Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out (Ivy League grads on foodstamps)

New York Times ^ | August 31, 2011 | JENNIFER 8. LEE

[ladyvet]

“I’m fulfilling my artistic goals,” Ms. Klein said.

....NANCY PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance....

[yldstrk]

I don’t think it is too much to ask to have a job somewhere doing something. all you hard hearted job holders must not have college age kids who can’t get their foot in the door.

[cripplecreek]

NANCY PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance

A few years back, HUD built a regular Utopia for them in Jackson Michigan. They call it an "art colony" but what it really is, is low income housing for drug addicts and and lazy bastards with crayons.

[listenhillary]

What is your solution?

Should Obama mandate that private industry should create 25 million jobs next Monday? Or borrow a couple of more trillion dollars and have them work for the government until we burn through that money also? Then what?

I’m curious who these students voted for. The Hope and Changey dude?

[SoJoCo]

“We did everything we were supposed to,” said Stephanie Morales, 23, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2009 with hopes of working in the arts. Instead she ended up waiting tables at a Chart House restaurant in Weehawken, N.J., earning $2.17 an hour plus tips, to pay off her student loans. “What was the point of working so hard for 22 years if there was nothing out there?

Apparently she did everything except get a marketable degree in an in-demand field.

[central_va]

It was worse in 1980.

[yldstrk]

What is my solution? I will tell you my solution.

Repeal Obamacare so that business is not afraid to hire the people it needs. Repeal the minimum wage. Revoke environmental regulations and statutes that make things impossible. Create a business friendly environment.

[certrtwngnut]

I like your line,
“lazy bastards with crayons”

[listenhillary]

We agree totally on the fix.

A majority of these rock the vote, were going to change the world college age voters gave us mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama as president. It is a shame that we are all suffering from their idealist nonsense voting behavior.

Now we are supposed to feel sorry for them?

[vladimir998]

You asked numberonepal:

“You have a lot of nerve calling them “pukes.” what do you suggest for them, genius?”

Yet you have said this as well: “What is my solution? I will tell you my solution. Repeal Obamacare so that business is not afraid to hire the people it needs. Repeal the minimum wage. Revoke environmental regulations and statutes that make things impossible. Create a business friendly environment.”

And you can accomplish all of that by yourself, right? numberonepal is closer to the mark. Don’t get me wrong, I want Obamacare repealed, but Obamacare is only a symptom of a greater problem. I think numberonepal was alluding to that greater problem: many young people have little or no skills for the real world, their education is a sham, they often have no work ethic, they often assume they will start off high up rather than entry level, and they feel so damn entitled!

And many of those young people VOTED FOR OBAMA!!! They are reaping what they sowed.

[PGR88]

I don’t think it is too much to ask to have a job somewhere doing something. all you hard hearted job holders must not have college age kids who can’t get their foot in the door.

You are correct, but I think Freepers are generally very skeptical of the skills and attitude of what are perceived as arrogant Ivy-League students (at least as portrayed by the NY Times). No one is "entitled" to a job.

I had a good degree, in economics, from a famous university - my first job? Counting stock in a warehouse. I too felt very put-upon. It took a few years of working in the REAL world to adjust my ego and attitude.

[Minus_The_Bear]

No it wasn't.

Unemployment is much much higher now.

Plus, the national debt has hollowed out our nation.

In the late 1970's and early 1980's we still have somewhat of a manufacturing base. The EPA, NAFTA, and other ignorant regulations killed that. It's much harder to start a small business now.

[Minus_The_Bear]

That is a myth.

The baby boomers hippies gave us Obama.

[yldstrk]

They are dumb kids.

And besides, only a few of us could see what a fake obama was. So yeah, they need a job.

[listenhillary]

Can we only let them vote at 18 if they are serving in the military?

These dumb kids could put the final nail in the coffin of this 230 year old shining city on a hill with their next vote.

[Tijeras_Slim]

“What was the point of working so hard for 22 years if there was nothing out there?”

It's perfect preparation for the 50 years that follows.

[central_va]

Nobody was hiring in 1980 and 81. The biggest difference I see between the situation then and now is that back in the early 80’s you couldn’t even get a stupid McDonald’s job or manual labor job to hold you over. There was literally nothing out there. Now the stupid jobs are out there all over the place.

[yldstrk]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

[yldstrk]

vlad

yeah, I can’t accomplish it by myself, very true and I am distraught over our future.

[BikerJoe]

I encourage everyone to search Google for theses and dissertations and read some of the executive summaries.

Amen! Whenever we go to games at my Alma Mater, I get the university newspaper to read, which has all the thesis defense schedules for that week. What a bunch of useless research. All "soft sciences" and feel good idiocy instead of the hard sciences and engineering when I was there. No evidence provided that the ideas will WORK (as with most social crap). What a tragedy. I'll bet I could just start writing off the top of my head and end up with a dissertation that's as good as any of that stuff.