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I would add to that: being a cab driver out of college doesn't mean you are making a career out of it. It's called an "entry-level" job for a reason.
by jeffdavis 14y ago
I would add to that: being a cab driver out of college doesn't mean you are making a career out of it. It's called an "entry-level" job for a reason.
- muzz 14y agoOr a stop-gap job being taken on during a period of massive job destruction (something like 7M jobs were lost from 2007-2010)
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- larrys 14y agoCould also be an immigrant with a degree from another country that is learning the language or getting situated as well. That said the story doesn't point to the trend from 1970 till now. The data is available I'm assuming. But did this happen evenly over time or in the last 5 or 10 years or?
- adrr 14y agoEntry level job is a job teaches your skills and gives you the experience to get a better job in the same field. Taxi cab driver isn't an entry level job, being an intern or assistant is an entry level job.
- danilocampos 14y agoTaking a data entry gig at a large firm is entry-level. You can grow into bigger things there. Driving taxis is a dead-end job. There's nowhere to go once you achieve mastery.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoIf you really paid attention and grokked the problems with the taxi business on a fundamental level, you might be in a position to launch a competitor for Uber. But yeah, unlikely.