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And yet plenty of people I know are struggling to get a job in their field...
by robotnikman 2y ago
And yet plenty of people I know are struggling to get a job in their field...
- mensetmanusman 2y agoThe fields are rearranging. Elderly and hospice care is where growth is at.
- silverquiet 2y agoDoes their field include sitting in a comfortable chair in an air-conditioned office (perhaps even in their home)? Those seem to be pretty tough to get.
- ajross 2y ago"In their field" is probably the magic to that sentence. Cobblers, blacksmiths and habberdashers have it rough too. Economies change. It's absolutely true that there are people coming out of school with humanities degrees that in previous generations would have guaranteed them a professional career, and finding they don't any more. But then there aren't nearly enough nursing graduates, and those of us here in the tech community are living way beyond what our parents would have expected from a "computer?!" education. And come next generation, we may find that some of us have been replaced by AI and our kids will want training in prompt engineering or whatever. But "no job in my field" isn't the same as "no reasonable job available".
- frumper 2y agoNursing programs are very difficult to get into. It isn't a case where a student chooses nursing over humanities and that adds an extra nurse to the field. It's a case where getting into a nursing program just displaces someone else. "The waitlist for Ventura College’s nursing program sits at four-and-a-half years, according to Sandra Melton, the director of the school of nursing and allied health. The nursing school at Cal State Fullerton had to decide which of 8,000 applicants would take 100 available spots in its fall 2023 entering class" https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2023/03/california-nursing-school/ https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-be...