Posted on 03/12/2014 12:55:50 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
Those who argue that higher education is a major league time suck just got more ammunition in a report from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
“The most new jobs projected for 2022 are expected to be in occupations requiring a high school diploma or equivalent,” BLS reports. “These occupations are projected to add 4.6 million new jobs. About a quarter of these new jobs will be in healthcare and social assistance. Another major area of projected growth for people with a high school diploma or equivalent is construction, which is expected to add almost 1 million jobs as construction regains jobs lost during the 2007–2009 recession.”
“The second largest number of new jobs projected for 2022 is expected to be in occupations that do not require a high school diploma. About 4.2 million new jobs are projected for occupations in which a high school diploma is not required. Of these, personal care aides and home health aides are projected to add a combined 1.0 million new jobs.”
It should be noted that the Department of Labor, which BLS is under, has long been a cheerleader for the amassing of academic credentials. Yet and still, BLS reports that, “In 2012, 49.0 million jobs were in occupations that typically require at least some postsecondary education for entry—education beyond a high school diploma or equivalent—compared with 96.4 million that require a high school diploma or less.”
I hear Obama is doing everything he can to increase the number of available jobs for golf caddies.
probably his only sustained contact with free enterprise.
This is why the chamber of crony capitalists insists on an unending stream of illegal workers to do these jobs. Amnesty is just a carrot to keep this exploitable resource crossing the border.
Our overpriced Universities are, but higher EDUCATION is not.
Most jobs want a candidate with a degree regardless. I’
ll believe it when I see people getting hired AT DECENT WAGES. I suppose those “medical jobs” are in retirement homes where one starts at minimum wage or just above.
IMO, higher ed does have at least one plus going for it. It tends to teach a discipline for research and follow-through that one might not be exposed to otherwise. Much more so in the hard sciences than in liberal arts.
At least that was my experience.
That said, if one is sufficiently self-motivated, the internet offers more knowledge, that is more readily available, and at a less expense than any university could ever hope to offer.
Here’s how I look at it:
In the past, if you wanted a middle class lifestyle, both spouses worked and mainly knew a skilled trad that was valuable. Being intellectual was for the upper classes with nothing but time on their hands and being a tradesman was respectable.
Only just now have huge numbers of people used education as their main way of moving up in the world and as a result it’s caused a deluge of morons entering higher education if only to get a degree and get a ‘good’ job. Not skilled, not fulfilling, but ‘good’ as in socially impeccable.
Instead of being something one enjoys, it’s all about climbing. now, employers are no longer interested in getting aspiring pampered aristocrats to do their job and do it well, but instead are going overseas and avoiding a lot of the hassle that fresh graduates bring with them all the time. Employers don’t want to pay for Mommy to take a year or two off of work or interested in paying over ten bucks for a switch flipper or put up with a young adult interested in turning their business into a socially correct work environment.
Our economy is unsustainable because people are looking to be taken are of, they are not interested in working anymore. When people show they have a skill on their resume, they will be hired. Bosses can’t afford to pay for a middle class lifestyle when they aren’t getting solid, skilled and talented workers.
Businesses are becoming like abused women who woke up and are walking away, not coming back no matter how much the abuser (US government and former workers) promise to the high heavens to reform and treat them better and change. Business won’t come back until there is real change, not socially engineered drivel.
Obamacare should lead to an increased demand for grave-diggers.
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