[The Beast1]

I was fortunate to get a job after college even with my useless literature degree. Luckily, being a computer nerd finally paid off with a full time job immediately after college.

I run into a lot of people during my adventures around the office and there's one thing that saddens me significantly.

Everyone of the people i meet from my graduating class of 2012 has either been working temp jobs post college or worse just found a job almost a year out of college.

I feel some sort of pity. The majority of the people who graduated with me aren't even working yet or are struggling to make it.

Even with all of the stories of bitchy girls and the like, it makes me curious if most of the people of my generation will fall to hopelessness working crappy low paying jobs. This years graduating class is worse off than the last at least looking at my former college.

[presidentcarter]

This has been the case in Europe on a more extreme level for years, the U.S. is just a little behind the trend. Unemployment among young people in places like Spain is staggering.

I think this is the new norm for the U.S. as well due to the combination of a recession, cheap overseas labor, and a 4-year degree becoming a birthright. Young people are being sold a bill of goods and the only safe ways to get a job out of school now is to network your ass off and have a good personality as well as have a rock solid resume and top grades.

Another way of saying it is only the top quartile will have their promised careers.

[The Beast1]

Europe has been like this? That's absolutely crazy.

It's not bad yet, but this is where the seeds of revolution start. Not with this generation but the next.

[TheBlackNarwhal]

College degrees simply are not what they used to be, as the job market is flooded with associates and bachelors (alot of them in useless liberal majors). I have no interest in taking $100,000 in debt of student loans and I have no interest in working at the local supermarket/fast food joint forever in hopes of raising enough money for all 4 years.

At this point, joining the military is my best bet. 4 years in and when I'm out they can pay for most of school, but they've been fucking around with the tuition that so many other vets have come to rely on.

[presidentcarter]

(05-30-2013 09:19 AM)frenchie Wrote:  

Europe has been like this? That's absolutely crazy.

It's not bad yet, but this is where the seeds of revolution start. Not with this generation but the next.

What I think is happening moreso in Europe than even the U.S. (just an observation, someone in Europe can confirm) is that many of Europe's 18-30 year olds are working odd jobs while attempting to further educate themselves, hoping that more education and a little more bought time will render a solution. It's happening here too, but seems much more common there. In the U.S. it seems much more bifurcated ie you're either going to 4-year university full time probably on loans or your parent's dime or you're slugging it out in blue collar gigs.

[The Beast1]

My friend went to law school for a semester and dropped out after he got a middle of the road GPA. He didn't want to have to work 50-60 hours a week making as much money as i make.

A lot of those kids were in law school because they didn't know what they wanted to do. Basically going to school to delay the onset of the real world.

I know a lot of kids getting masters and Phds at top schools here in Boston but they're boat loads in dept and worse have that annoying, "I'm smarter than you" attitude.

I don't feel bad for people who perpetually go to school. They tend to (key words) be snobby pricks. More power to them.

It's the ones working temp job after temp job living out of their parents house that i feel for.

This type of ivory tower intellectual who can't work will be starved out of existence in the coming years. I hope we see the rise of the blue collar worker again in the following decade.

[scotian]

(05-30-2013 08:43 AM)frenchie Wrote:  

I was fortunate to get a job after college even with my useless communications degree. Luckily, being a computer nerd finally paid off with a full time job immediately after college.

I run into a lot of people during my adventures around the office and there's one thing that saddens me significantly.

Everyone of the people i meet from my graduating class of 2012 has either been working temp jobs post college or worse just found a job almost a year out of college.

I feel some sort of pity. The majority of the people who graduated with me aren't even working yet or are struggling to make it.

Even with all of the stories of bitchy girls and the like, it makes me curious if most of the people of my generation will fall to hopelessness working crappy low paying jobs. This years graduating class is worse off than the last at least looking at my former college.

Sounds like some of your friends should harden the fuck up and consider a career in the oil biz.

[The Beast1]

I was ready to join the arm if i couldn't get a job. OCS would have been it.

I mean seriously what else am i going to do? Work some pittance part time job? Screw that, at least i'd be busy doing something instead of making a latte at some coffee joint.

[dk902]

(05-30-2013 12:42 PM)frenchie Wrote:  

Work some pittance part time job? Screw that, at least i'd be busy doing something instead of making a latte at some coffee joint.

Don't screw your nose up so much at other jobs you perceive to be below your level.

How do you know the guy behind the counter at Starbucks is not working 3 jobs just so he can get by and support his family or his mum is dying of cancer?

A job is a job, and at some point lots of us have had to do things we don't like or menial work.

I've worked in restaurants cleaning dishes and floors, pushed trollies at supermarkets, waited on tables, served drinks when I was younger.

They were convenient at the time and helped me earn some money and taught me the importance of hard work.

If you had to do a temp job somewhere or 'making a latte at some coffee joint,' then see it as a stepping stone onto bigger and better things.

It's not so much the recession or the economic downturn which is the problem, but people's attitude to work.

They think they have a god-given right to a great job, with minimal work and no skills to show for it.

It is the scourge of modern society, everything for nothing.

This is evident in the thought process of a fattie, who wants guys to love her for the way she is.

Even though she's too lazy to put any effort into her appearance, thereby trying to flaunt the laws of human biology, the product of millions of years of evolution.

I think another poster alluded to it a while back, with the popularity of modern films like Green Lantern, Superman, Spiderman, where the main character ends up having superpowers through no work of his own.

[kdolo]

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