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>Underemployment should be mentioned in any discussion of job difficulty; in the US, getting a job as a barista or fast food is possible, but a horrendous waste
by rhino369 11y ago
>Underemployment should be mentioned in any discussion of job difficulty; in the US, getting a job as a barista or fast food is possible, but a horrendous waste of a college education.
But there have never been enough "good" white collar to employ the current number of Americans getting a college education. The difference was there were enough good, white collar jobs for the college graduates back then. But the number of college graduates has exploded.
You can train another 20k Physicists, but we wouldn't have any use for them.
And the quality of the degrees are lower too because colleges are accepting (and then graduating) worse and worse students.
Not everyone is cut out to do great things. There is no shame in slinging coffee.
- hoorayimhelping 11y ago>There is no shame in slinging coffee. I was raised to think this - there is absolutely no shame in working for a living. This scene from Girls basically sums up millenials and their relationship with work for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgK_tPnGfcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgK_tPnGfcI
- intopieces 11y ago>There is no shame in slinging coffee. The shame isn't in the work, the shame is in having no money to do anything: get a decent apartment, raise a family, go on vacation, provide for a spouse.
- rhino369 11y agoExpecting to provide for a spouse is outdated now that women are in the work place. They increased worker supply, driving down wages.
- intopieces 11y ago>They increased worker supply, driving down wages. True, and the switch in economic focus from manufacturing to services hasn't helped much either. Makes me wonder how single people raise kids when the average wage/salary anticipates 2 earners.