They were doing that in the 1970s.
The common joke was PhD’s driving cabs and flipping burgers.
A good many jobs requiring degrees really don’t.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What else are English majors supposed to do? (I can say that because I’m and English major)
Gee, I wonder what the ILLEGALS will do now?
Go home?
/sarc
I have been unemployed exactly 6 months in my entire life, and that was only because I was on unemployment and was not really trying all that hard to find a job. Right after my unemployment ran out, I amazingly found work the next day.
GMAFB
No dishonor to cleaning toilets, roofing or driving a taxi, degree or no degree. Basic supply and demand - more and more people with college degrees, the less value one has. Sure, a few generations ago any BA at all was a pretty good foot in the door to the fast track, but no longer. BFD, we’re all in the same boat; a degree is a *start* not a finish.
All a degree means is that you can learn,and perhaps even understand information of a level requiring literacy, a modicum of research and seat time and regurgitate same in a manner agreeable with the paradigm of your professors.
Of course it could mean much more, in some disciplines, but I worked in a warehouse, and then a guitar factory with my BA, didn’t whine, learned as much as a temp worker on a production line as I ever could have sitting in a classroom.
You know, I dont recall ever seeing an Engineer, Mathematician, Scientist, or IT guy taking jobs that didn’t require degrees.
Must be something to do with degrees ending in “studies”.
From my past experience, thats all most are qualified for.
As a senior, I just received a (student) e-mail from Wal-Mart inviting me to explore //all the possibilities// available as a \\potential\\ employee of their fine firm.
For fun (I have a good job already) I e-mailed my question: do these positions offer ^^@@ medical benefits?
doubtful
=^P
Mis-educated, over-educated; higher education is folly.
Well, duuuhhh!
I did that in 1972. Never held a job where a degree was required and I spent 35 plus years with 2 companies in the same industry. Had a Vice Presidents title at one time, for what that is worth.
Life is not about paper, but about doing things.