>expect a job teaching high school. Yeah see the expectation is the problem. Here in Australia most of the people with teaching degrees are waiting for the boo

>expect a job teaching high school. Yeah see the expectation is the problem. Here in Australia most of the people with teaching degrees are waiting for the boomers to retire, because there are very few full time positions (unless you are willing to move to the most remote and poor communities). >But there was nothing unreasonable in his thought process, from my perspective at least. The unreasonable thing is believing that just getting a degree will get you into a middle-class profession. That hasn't been true for at least twenty years. You need good grades, co-ops, and connections. As the article points out the market for tertiary educated workers is smaller than the pool of tertiary educated workers.