Yes, there are! All you need do is to learn how to say, “Do you want fries with that?”
Waiter!
What a waste of some parents hard earned $$$
The WSJ had a piece on graduates in petroleum emgineering STARTING at $97k.
There are PHD graduates washing dishes in Boulder.
Actually, when kids studied the classics, history, and languages, it was pretty good preparation for life in general. They learned about their country and about Western Civilization.
Now, unfortunately, they learn nothing—except the latest ideological twists, and how white folks are inferior to everyone else, and how the West was guilty of mistreating everyone else—especially American Indians, Africans, Mexicans, and Muslims, ever since the Crusades.
That is, they learn nothing, except how to prostrate themselves to the Democrat Machine and its Republican buddies. And make do without jobs.
48 weeks worked a year x 5 days/wk x 8 hrs/day gives an hourly rate of $13.68.
Good luck with that, on supporting a family and paying back tens of thousands of $$ in student loans.
The issue isn’t the ‘value of the degree’, but the quality of the employee.
Smart liberal arts majors prove themselves and win out over time. Pre-professional majors have seldom been the cream of the student crop, so it’s probably good for them that they augment their natural talents with pre-professional training.
Engineers and other STEM majors also get a boost from their training, but their real value is that they tend to be fairly bright or better.
Smarts and personal character make the most difference in professional success.
With a retraining program, they MIGHT qualify to run a deep fryer...
This sounds like a crock!
Lawyer. Barrista. Dog walker. Sad but true.
I sometimes get the feeling that some folks confuse college with vocational training or an apprenticeship.
The problem with the Humanities degree in most universities is the content of the course or the lack of rigor in instruction. Historically, a college degree was not just for landing a good paying job. It was to help form the whole man. There are other ways to do it, just as there are different kinds of men.
Abandoning the liberal arts to the leftists will make it that much more difficult to counter the cultural revolution that has been raging for the last 100 years.
A well-educated liberal arts major can find good work in many fields. I am a political science and economics major who has worked largely in IT. I haven’t had to serve fries since my sophomore year in college.
We all know Humanities majors aren’t employable. What burns me up is the line of complete BS that these college placement counselors spew about how employers are looking for “broad thinkers” and people with “well rounded experience.” It points out what a scam most college majors are.
The Humanities Departments in colleges are powerful but they need a constant stream of idealistic, sucker students to support them. So they spin this line of BS that you can get a job as a Liberal Arts or Humanities major and kids believe them. The entire job placement infrastructure of the university supports this Bull__t. If colleges were honest, they’d cut way back on the number of kids getting Humanities degrees and cut professor salaries or cut back the Humanities Department staff. But we all know that ain’t gonna happen as long as they can sucker kids into taking Humanities.
There is no experience basis, with academia or the Carnegie folks to trust what either of them say about education. Their ideological biases have destroyed and whittled away any trust they ever deserved.
All you have to do for a degree with honors in anything ending in “studies” is parrot back whatever liberal claptrap the professor happens to embrace. Critical thinking might lead to “wrong” conclusions, you see.