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> It would be a massive waste of my training to be working in an unrelated field This is an example of what I'm talking about. What's more of a waste of your
by tjic 10y ago
> It would be a massive waste of my training to be working in an unrelated field
This is an example of what I'm talking about.
What's more of a waste of your training? To be work in a career field only 60% overlapping with your training, or to be unemployed (with 0% overlap) ?
- arcanus 10y agoGreat point. Better to be employed than not, and of course no job is a perfect fit. Would be interesting to count one as being only 60% employed, in the example you give. So if you had 100 million people all employed at 60% fit, that's an 'effective' employment of 60 million. Of course, I have no idea how one might measure that. But I am not an economist, there may be similar (or superior) measures for underemployment.
- mcguire 10y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher
- tjic 10y agoJFC :(
- barry-cotter 10y agoDepends. If you never get a job in your field again because of downshifting into unskilled labour it's more of a waste than losing a year to unemployment and job search. If you want to read more on this look up "search costs" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1976.tb00386.x/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1976....