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College-educated workers are taking jobs that don't require degrees
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 20, 2013 | By Alana Semuels

Posted on 09/20/2013 4:37:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

College graduates are tending bar and driving taxis, pushing people without degrees out of those jobs.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bhoeconomy; failure; generationy; obamanomics; workforce
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Thank Obama.
1 posted on 09/20/2013 4:37:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They were doing that in the 1970s.

The common joke was PhD’s driving cabs and flipping burgers.


2 posted on 09/20/2013 4:38:46 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A good many jobs requiring degrees really don’t.


3 posted on 09/20/2013 4:39:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Baraqqi “new normal”

Stockman’s book says we have fewer “breadwinner” level jobs now than 1998.

NYCers are demanding a Masters degree for their nannys.


4 posted on 09/20/2013 4:40:36 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My son, younger daughter, and most of their college-degree friends are working either blue-collar jobs are routine office jobs: bartending, retail sales, warehousing, accounts payable, nursery work, handyman work, and so forth.


5 posted on 09/20/2013 4:40:41 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Oh, amen .... but I don't see why a degreed taxi driver would be preferable (to the employer or the customer) to a man who really knows his way around (in London, they call it "the Knowledge", and prospective London cabbies are examined in it before they get their rides).

Of course, and I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who once pointed it out, a good way to start a 55-minute argument is to ask a foursome of Manhattanites to tell you the best way to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park.

6 posted on 09/20/2013 4:41:15 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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Having already spent money and time on degrees for jobs that were outsourced to India, some in the workplace have opted to do jobs that can’t be sent overseas (like transportation service, etc.) and don’t require spending more money to get a new degree.


7 posted on 09/20/2013 4:41:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What else are English majors supposed to do? (I can say that because I’m and English major)


8 posted on 09/20/2013 4:42:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Steve_Seattle

My cousin drove a Chicago hack for a while, while working on one of his degrees. Now he’s a dean at a western midsize campus.


9 posted on 09/20/2013 4:42:12 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: TomGuy

They were doing that during the Great Depression. My father’s Brooklyn public school yearbook was filled with teachers who had Harvard and Yale degrees.


10 posted on 09/20/2013 4:42:22 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: lentulusgracchus

The cab drivers (off the boat) in my city don’t know the basic roads and have total reliance on mapping software telling them when and where to turn.


11 posted on 09/20/2013 4:42:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee, I wonder what the ILLEGALS will do now?

Go home?

/sarc


12 posted on 09/20/2013 4:44:06 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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(I can say that because I’m and English major) [emphasis, Roccus]

Ooookay....

13 posted on 09/20/2013 4:44:20 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Oh, the answer to that used to be easy: just take Broadway all the way down. Now with that stupid pedestrian mall in Times Square...


14 posted on 09/20/2013 4:44:32 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: nickcarraway

(I can say that because I’m and English major)

Houston, we have a problem.


15 posted on 09/20/2013 4:44:51 PM PDT by Segovia
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What else are English majors supposed to do?

Go back to your high school and bitch-slap your "counselor" for giving you a bum steer.

There are professional HR products that test aptitude and can give students a steer in the right direction, when the outcomes are put together with current salary and career-arc info. School counselors not doing that are stealing their paychecks.

16 posted on 09/20/2013 4:44:59 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: cripplecreek

You are correct.
When you interview people even for a grunt job, the degree person is more likely to be hired, the reasoning (even thought it maybe flawed) is that is shows the person can start and complete something.
When I was interviewing, I found it a ridiculous premiss. Although a person with AA, is a good bet, someone with a masters is not going to stay in a grunt job.


17 posted on 09/20/2013 4:45:39 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: Roccus; Segovia

I never said I was good at typing - I’m terrible.


18 posted on 09/20/2013 4:48:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: a fool in paradise

For the last 30 years my husband has worked for overseas companies in the US, that makes him out sourced.
First the Danish, now the Japaneses.
People are demanding 24/7 customer service so companies are employing people around the world to answers phones, we will never go back to M-F, 8-5 phone service.


19 posted on 09/20/2013 4:48:47 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: cripplecreek
A good many jobs requiring degrees really don’t.

The best supervisors in my plant came from the ranks of the production workers.......

Once the corporation started hiring "college degreed" individuals for supervision, without an ounce of plant production experience, it went downhill from there......

A college degree may work in the corporate office, but on the plant floor, there is no substitute for actual experience......

20 posted on 09/20/2013 4:50:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
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