Sunday, July 1, 2012

College grads learning good jobs hard to find now (employers note "skill gap")

Summary: Three unemployed students are interviewed, one is a psych major, the second is a history major, and the last one has a degree in electronic media.

History degree???? What the HELL would they be good for in the workplace?? NOTHING but be Mr. KnowitAll.

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The people I would hire the ones with unique skills needed for if and when Americans have to fight I will already have a crew.


I hire people, I pay heed to such things as shortwave operators, military backgrounds, gunsmithing and certain computer skills.


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.


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"History majors are often fairly smart.


Now finding a job that ‘uses’ an undergraduate psychology degree, on the other hand..."


Being "fairly smart" doesn't mean you can even do a retail job well.....and physcology degrees ENSURES you can;t!! 


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Obtaining a degree that there would be some demand for (and an $85k starting salary) might require some work and spending a few weekends in the lab and library, and not spending weekends with drugs, alcohol and using those "free" contraceptives from Obama.


Proof positive that a college education can't make anyone use common sense. 


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I don't understand why people pay for education in the first place. With the internet and sites like Kahn Academy the only reason to pay for education is to acquire an increasingly worthless piece of paper. 


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When most university faculty are decidedly anti-capitalist is it any wonder so much of their product doesn’t mesh with the business world? 


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Cry me a river. My generation started out in the mail room and secretarial pool and they ended up doing pretty well for themselves. Well, until Obama came along...


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“You go to school thinking you're going to graduate and there's going to be a job in an office waiting for you,” he said, “but a few years into it, you realize that's not really going to happen.”

You go to a 2008 Political Rally and let this Black, Marxist, Muslim guy charm and mesmerize you, and you join in with hundreds of others and chant: YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! Then after three years of the Marxist's Presidency you realize that "NO WE CAN'T!".

Well, what can I say? Hope the couch in your parents' basement is comfy and that they rag on your a** everyday to get out and find a job that's not there. And, if America reelects Barack Obama on November 6, 2012, I hope that everyone who votes for him loses their job, their house, their car and end up in living together in the park in a tent with all the "Occupy" scum; getting mugged, robbed and raped. 



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I came of age during Jimmy Carter’s miserable administration. I made under $100 a week for the first year and maybe $125 the second year. It built up my work skills and toughened me up (well, somewhat). So, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for kids with an English degree who want $60,000 straight out of the box.

--- By the way, the article specifically says that the job these students are vying for pays $22,000.

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I work at a university teaching high-level IT skills.. Just getting the know-it-all professors to understand there is a world beyond Cobol and object-oriented programming is tough enough (I had to offer them FREE classes), but to convince the psychology and various feminist/black/chicano/gay studies types that their programs are worthless is next to impossible. Why? Because they got a nice cushy teaching gig without having to break a sweat and to actually inform their students that they're on a dead-end track would mean the gravy train is over.


--- Gasp! You meant to tell me that people who have PHDs in a subject don't take well to you telling them their subject is worthless? Shocking!


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When I was in college, those that majored in Psych were there to party and the females were there to find a degree in Mrs. This female graduated with a degree in Psych..Even the senior level psych courses were ones that required little, if any, hard work.


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Many of those who voted for Obama, including the university crowd, thought they were voting for others to be put in their place. I have zero doubt that was a major motivation for many on the left. It always is.
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. 

2 comments:

  1. "Many of those who voted for Obama, including the university crowd, thought they were voting for others to be put in their place. I have zero doubt that was a major motivation for many on the left. It always is."

    I'm sure that's the case, since the right's only motivations are Jesus, Fetus and Apple Pie.

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  2. History judges a nation by the quality of its culture, not the quantity of its wealth. Forty plus years of anti-intellectualism, particularly anti-arts, is producing a unique culture in the United States. I hope the sane ones of you can get the country back on track.

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