Posted on 07/01/2012 3:24:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
All throughout their government schooling experience their Democrat/liberal teachers and guidance counselors have been grooming these kids to “follow your true self”. You see it in their imbecilic appearance patterns - tattoos, piercings and whatever that aboriginal giant black round ear thing is. You also see it in their confused sex roles and partial rejection of traditional marriage and normal families.
This is just a further example of the destructive power of turning our children over to idiots and liberals, but I repeat myself. These children have been trained by the “experts” to “follow your dream” and in college studied a hobby rather than a career. Like the average hobbyist they’re paying dearly for their hobby.
Not a single one of them displayed regret or associated this bad advice with their bad outcome - will the demand for psychology or history majors ever be such that they’ll find a job in their chosen “field”? That’s how deep the indoctrination goes. Even the psychology majors don’t grasp the cognitive dissonance.
Having a degree is better than not...if you have a good attitude, flexibility, integrity, honesty and a good work ethic. That TX girl with the gold class ring...if she is unemployed why did she go further in debt to have a gold class ring? Also, sending 2-3 resumes each week? A week is a long time. The country is large. I really have a hard time crying for those who have degrees who have such inadequate ways of finding a position. They should all get “green” jobs...ones that put green into their pockets.
“College bills...no skills” is incredibly good and so accurate.
I sat in my university library a year ago working on my undergraduate degree (I graduated with a 4.0 GPA) and heard a student at another table talk about her 45% grade on an exam, and then declare “This my last class and all I need a D becuase D mean D-gree.”
Translation: “All I need is to pass this class with a “D” to earn my degree.” And my degree looks the same as hers. So what was the point of doing the work I did and earning the marks I did, when mediocrity and the bare minimum to earn the passing grade is all that’s really required?
Handing out degrees to people like this is a part of what is making them functionally useless today. They mean less, yet the price keeps going up.
College changed in the last 40 years. It used to be about making you a well rounded person. Now it is about job training. The days where a degree was an automatic ticket are long gone.
Because someone, somewhere will want to see your respective GPAs.
My daughter will be marrying a young man this summer who she met while in college. During their Sophomore year, he had a decision to make - he had received an offer of full-time employment with a credit union. Started as a teller, and has now worked his way up to Financial Specialist. They are paying for him to finish his degree.
Rather than live in an apartment, he borrowed enough money from his parents for a down payment on a duplex - rented out the top floor and took in a roommate with whom he lives on the lower level, thus eliminating his living expenses.
In the meantime, my daughter worked very hard to finish her degree. She had a job waiting for her with the firm that she interned with (at no pay) last summer. They told her that she was the only intern they ever had that did more than stand back and observe - she actually learned their systems, worked with clients and manned their booth at trade shows - they could hardly wait until she graduated - the owner herself was putting in 90 hr weeks to hold off on hiring someone else.
With interest rates on mortgages being so low, and home prices depressed, I have a feeling they will be looking for either another duplex or perhaps a single family home for themselves....both are 22 and they are actually in much better shape than MGD and me.
“Having a degree is better than not...if you have a good attitude, flexibility, integrity, honesty and a good work ethic”
In most cases I agree but as you note, it is an amalgamation of all those things which makes a successful candidate and a person who will be successful regardless of the field they choose. I cannot over stress the last point, work ethic. Work hard at what you are doing and you will be surprised at what may happen to your future.
Another great post! Where I live every kid has either tattoos crawling up his neck or down her leg and hair dyed purple. They do all kinds of weird gender-bending (like a friend’s daughter who shows up at parties wearing an ill-fitting man’s tuxedo) and then wonder why they are unemployed or have to go back to school for more and more degrees which seem to make them more and more unemployable.
Well said.
Hanging with “cool” teachers has left them hung out to dry. I wonder how long self-esteem can prop up the illusion.
3-5 resumes per week is the minimum the state requires to keep your unemployment benefits...it looks like August is when those benefits run out if you read between the lines of that article.
My kid is a freshman majoring in psychology and she already started her business plan for when she graduates.
In today’s world its all about a SURVIVAL PLAN and if you aren’t immediately flexible you are dead meat.
The universities and colleges are turning out thousands of feel good generic degrees that have no practical use in the real world.
“I have no place for the socialistic tripe fed wussies that openly admire socialism. I can tell on a job application to a good degree where a person stands.”
I would think that criteria would also automatically cut down on those prone to engage in workplace lawsuits at the drop of a hat because of any minute perceived “unfairness”. In other words, you would be hiring fewer children and greater numbers of adults who know how to deal with life as it knocks them about.
Ha ha ha. I have a history degree and wish I was a know-it-all! I fly jets off carriers now:)
How dare you say anything like that, sir! Don't you realize that "the practical people" who post on threads like this know everything there is to know about education and employment?
History majors have quite a few talents that are hard to find in other occupations.
Face it....a history major is worthless in the real world.
Don't forget underwater basket-weaving, which is how we engineering students classified practically ALL other non-engineering/science degrees back in the day.
So what is your occupation, sir?
That said, I have no sympathy for those who voted for Obama thinking he was going to make things better for them while screwing someone else, only to find out that they wound up being hurt as well. There are tons of people out there who have worked hard their whole lives, scrapping together what they thought was going to see them into retirement, only to have their life savings and their plans decimated by the social engineering crowd.
In the American economy, when the tide is high all, or most boats float higher. When you try to selectively target the kinds of success you don't like, in a hate-driven attempt at social engineering, you make the tide lower for everyone (except the political class - who are always impervious to reality). For all of those who wound up being 'collateral damage' because of their vote for this administration, blame yourselves.
Thanks for that post #59. It was a nice attempt to outline what a liberal arts education is, but I’m sure it fell on deaf ears.
You, of course, know that what you’re dealing with on threads of this kind are: 1) the know-it-alls who have no advanced education but somehow know everything about life and 2) the engineering-is-god types who were basically trained, no educated in the true sense of the word.
They know The Way and you don’t, and that’s all there is to it. It’s a waste of time to argue with such closed minds.
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