I just wish employers would stop requiring irrlevant or useless degrees.
That will not happen until we end useless labor laws, stop permitting and supporting illegal immigration, end all H1B style labor programs and demand that public schools actually teach useful work skills and not propaganda.
So this would mean ending the Dept of Education, instituting a "loser pays" system for employment suits and generally removing most federal government intervention in the labor market (aka Davis-Bacon, minimum wage laws etc. etc.)
“I just wish employers would stop requiring irrelevant or useless degrees.”
Unfortunately, if you want to hire a white who has no degree, but 20 years in the field and his competition is a minority with a degree, you’d better be prepared to prove in court why you hired the white. It’s a legal issue. Companies are risk averse, so they hire the guy with the most degrees as they can justify that in court.
Having hired many people, I can tell you that college degrees are, for the most part, not an indicator of how people will perform. If you need a mechanical engineer, the fact that candidate A, with no degree builds hotrods makes him infinitely better than candidate B who got straight A’s in engineering shchool and has no outside interest in mechanical stuff. The same is true in all professions. An electrical tech with a ham license is 50 times better than a degreed engineer who has never built any of his own equipment.
“I just wish employers would stop requiring irrlevant or useless degrees.”
You’re dreaming. The reason for requiring degrees is that colleges still have (some) standards, if they want to retain their credibility (i.e., accreditation), whereas high school diplomas are now a joke. So, if you need someone that can read, you better look to a college degree - as being able to read is still necessary there.
(this is a sick, sick, country)
No joke. There’s no reason for say, a factory foreman to need a business degree. If you want him to be an accountant, then maybe, and I emphasize maybe.
Majorly experienced tradesmen hanging in there at the lowe's and home depot because there's no building, no work.
The only teens I know with summer jobs either had a connection to exploit, or had to literally travel 100's of miles and live with relatives to find a summer job.
I'm not making this up.
Hope and Change, folks.