Posted on 10/30/2010 12:49:41 PM PDT by WebFocus
Many employees are demanding college degrees for jobs easily understtod and carried out by a 6th grade “graduate”;the colleges sold America a load of horse manure in the idea that everyone needs ,or can even benefit from , college.
When you pervert the system and cheapen the degree process so “everyone can attend college” and have a degree, the value and utility of a college degree drops.
Couple that with 50 years of asinine political decisions that drove American industry offshore and you end up with exactly what we have.
So far the reaction of the government and the education industry is to double down on the same short sighted policies that first brought on the problem.
When the leftist dream of universal college attendance is eventually realized we will have degreed graduates mowing the lawns of wealthy plumbers, mechanics, carpenters, welders and others who can actually do something and who provide needed skills and services.
Well if this is so...they should vote Republican on Tuesday...allow the Republicans to can the laws the muslim/communist cartel in DC has put into place. Then let private business regenerate and these 17,000,000 well educated people can rejoin the work force by using the education they acquired. Some may even begin their own business and hire of a few of the college educated in a position appropriate to their skills. They pay may be lower than the one they had before the downfall of business, but it will give them a better sense of self, and the pay will increase with time. Been there, done that.
What ever happened to getting a business degree and then opening your own business? Maybe your dad was a plumber and then you went to business school and then opened your own plumbing business. These college kids have a warped sense of what to expect when they get out. Few want to organize, work hard, and sacrifice good times to get to the top. No doubt credit has dried up, but it can be done.
I personally think everyone who wants a degree should have a fall back. Carpenters, meat cutters, electricians, plumbers etc are always in demand. Right now I need an electrician and doggone can’t find one that has a few minutes to spare for my small job.
I personally think that no one should get a degree just to get a job. A degree is a by product of learning, the reason that someone goes to college. If someone has a degree and is a “server”, that is just fine if the person is happy and, trust me, you don’t have to have money to be wealthy,
The Indian company, Focus, a subsidiary of Dictaphone/Nuance, employs home-based MTs....so now the medical records of many Americans can be accessed via PCs in the living rooms of MTs in a 3rd world country. And they're NOT liable under HIPAA privacy laws like American MTs are. Can't wait for the lawsuits to begin!
Mrs. Prince of Space
Nothing wrong with doing an honest day’s work providing a service everyone needs.
My wife retired at age 49 as the COO of an electronics company. I am currently a VP of marketing. Neither one of us received college degrees. Maybe we should’ve stepped aside for someone more “qualified”.
College can educate you, but it doesn’t necessarily make one intelligent.
I agree whole heartedly.
The college educational result of today gives one the equivalent of the old "drop-out-of-school-in-the-6th-grade" status of the 1950's.
What jobs are there for liberal arts students besides circular jobs (teaching the crap you learnt back to someone new)? We need more manual employees.
Even as a lot of colleg grads cannot find suitable work, here are some professions where there are/will be real shortages.... MOST OF THESE ARE JOB I DON’T THINK AMERICANS WANT TO DO.
SEE HERE:
...a leading economist is now predicting a labor shortage by 2018.
It may sound surprising given the recession, but Barry Bluestone, Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University projects there will be at least 5 million potential job vacancies in the U.S. and not enough people to fill them within eight years.
“If the baby boom generation retires from the labor force at the same rate and age as current older workers, the baby bust generation that follows will likely be too small to fill many of the projected new jobs,” states Bluestone’s report, After the Recovery: Help Needed - The Coming Labor Shortage and How People in Encore Careers Can Help Solve It.
This scenario could weigh heavily on the U.S. economy in years to come. According to Bluestone, the loss in total output could limit the growth of needed services and cost the economy as much as $3 trillion by 2023.
Workers over 55 will be key to closing the labor gap, notes Bluestone. “Not only will there be jobs for these experienced workers to fill,” Bluestone writes, “but the nation will absolutely need older workers to step up and take them.”
So, where will the jobs be? Bluestone’s research identifies the following 15 jobs that will provide the largest number of potential new encore career opportunities:
1. registered nurses
2. home health aides
3. personal and home care aides
4. nursing aides
5. orderlies and attendants
6. medical assistants
7. licensed practical and vocational nurses
8. medical and health service managers
9. teachers
10. teacher assistants
11. child care workers
12. business operations specialists
13. general and operations managers
14. receptionists and information clerks
15. clergy and social and human service assistants
Probably 50% of kids in college shouldn’t be there. They should be learning a trade, or in tech school.
Meanwhile, nobody is being taught how to make or fix anything anymore.
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