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2013-09-09 Economy
I can’t get a job with my medieval feminist studies degree?
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Posted by badanov 2013-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Sure you can, just use your time machine to go back then and apply for a job as "Wife", thousands of people will "Employ" you.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-09-09 00:16||   2013-09-09 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 She would have all it takes to make a great Beer Wench.
Posted by gorb 2013-09-09 02:51||   2013-09-09 02:51|| Front Page Top

#3 At her "Viva Voce" (oral exam), all she had to do was read

Would
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Fries
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That?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-09 03:27||   2013-09-09 03:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Ontario, for example, will soon halve the number of students accepted into teachers college programs and double the amount of time it takes to complete the degree.

Ridiculous padding. How about just jacking up standards? No additional costs involved. Oh wait, what am I saying, they want the money. The others are only being shut down because someone finally discovered the negative ROE.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-09 10:37||   2013-09-09 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 ..oops...ROI
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-09 10:38||   2013-09-09 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 You had it right the first time.
Posted by KBK 2013-09-09 11:16||   2013-09-09 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Mrs. Phester and I have (3) grand-morons who finished college in the past (3) years.

Of the three, none are working in their fields. Two are secretarial assistants (one of whom works in the same place as her Mom and Dad), and the other recently landed a job in retail sales. None of these jobs require more than an Associates Degree.

Another one of the kids is being pushed into going to college, and my recommendation that he consider the "successes" of the above is looked at as being, er, unwelcome to say the least. When I ask why he wants to go to college to begin with, I get "To play ball." (He's a pretty good catcher.) as the answer.

Four-year college used to be a place that taught you how to think; it is now somewhere where you are taught what to think with very low levels of actual education. The little pieces of paper you now get at the end are little more than expensive certificates of attendance. Corporate Cultures are pushing the "College Degree Required" crap all the way to broom pushing.

IM(not so)HO, College education is, for most students (Dr's, Engineers, etc. excepted) a scam not far removed from a Ponzi Scheme....

My "wake-up call" happened a number of years ago when I saw a book we used in one of my college courses in a $1-bin at K-mart. Kind of put it all in perspective....
Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-09 14:27||   2013-09-09 14:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Uncle Phester, you know the grand kids better than I of course and I don't know what majors they have, but the job market is in the toilet and the kids got jobs. That is something.
Posted by rjschwarz 2013-09-09 14:34||   2013-09-09 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 :) Phester wants to buy their dad a model HelioCopter of Doom, he's just that way.
Posted by Shipman 2013-09-09 16:03||   2013-09-09 16:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Shipman: Your insights undoubtedly serve you well.....

Some call me the gangster of love.....
Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-09 20:10||   2013-09-09 20:10|| Front Page Top

#11 job market is in the toilet
Don't know what you have been searching for in the way of employment, but out here north of Seattlestan, we have a dearth of engineers and program managers for our little ol' aerospace company. Boeing is sucking them all away, but if you are fresh out of school, this would be a place to get some 'sperience.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-09-09 21:24||   2013-09-09 21:24|| Front Page Top

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