Four or five years ago, when these young people started college, it was an intelligent investment. Many astute people did not anticipate that the world would change utterly in the fall of 2008 and that a college education would no longer be a ticket to a good job.
Even today, it’s hard to predict what might happen. I took career training for something that was supposed to get me a good job. I investigated carefully before embarking on the training. Yes indeed, employers I talked to were desperate, and were waving money at me—just show up with a certification in your paw, they said, and we’ll give you a job. A federal government ruling changed that, and I’m now out the training money and the employers aren’t hiring for those jobs anymore.
So it’s a crapshoot, and I don’t think it’s fair to criticize today’s young people for not figuring out that the economy was going to collapse and not come back.
Classes that taught an employable trade, yes. Liberal arts classes about LGBT studies for example, no.
So it’s a crapshoot, and I don’t think it’s fair to criticize today’s young people for not figuring out that the economy was going to collapse and not come back.
From this link, "As millions of young Americans struggle to land jobs, students in manufacturing trade schools are sitting in a sweet spot. They're being hired even before they graduate."
I'm sorry for the students who got into debt over some unmarketable liberal arts degrees, but they either needed to figure out or be told that they need marketable skills. That goes back to my original point, which was basically that we need to stop talking gloom and doom, and start talking alternatives, which are out there.
A degree in Womyn’s Studies or LGBTWQIA Studies has NEVER been a good investment.
You hit on a very important topic.
Government interference in the job market and over-certification of education
Face it folks Goals 2000 works to cripple people
Credential creep is here. Now NPs need to be Doctorates
Now phycial therapists need to be doctorates.
One cannot faht in the wind without a state credential.
Onc cannot move around the country with the credentials because we are actually more like medievil guilds now than capitalist competitors.