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Bidenomics: Half of college graduates are working high school level jobs
Posted on 3/1/24 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 3/1/24 at 7:56 pm
About half of America's new college graduates are working in high school-level jobs like food service and retail: report
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Nearly half of new college graduates in the US are working high school-level jobs, per new research.
Around 52% of recent graduates start their careers in jobs that don't need a degree, it said.
Most of these underemployed graduates work in food services, construction, and office administration.
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Within a year of graduating, about 52% of people who recently earned bachelor's degrees in the US are working jobs that don't require a college education, according to a new joint report by two research firms.
The vast majority of underemployed graduates — 88% of them — are working high school-level jobs such as office support, food service, and retail within five years of graduation, per the report by the data research firms Burning Glass Institute and the Strada Education Foundation.
The report, published on Thursday, was based on a dataset of 60 million people's careers in the US, including those of 10.8 million people with a bachelor's degree.
Its findings present a bleak outlook for new graduates hoping that a degree will guarantee them significantly better opportunities.
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Posted on 3/1/24 at 7:59 pm to stout
As a raw statistic, it doesn't mention the most likely important fact like what their major was and how good was the college.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:03 pm to Auburn1968
Yea a deep dive into that would prove that a lot of college degrees are worthless and could be eliminated
Colleges don't want people to know that
Colleges don't want people to know that
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:03 pm to stout
They’re uneducated so what else can they do?
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:04 pm to stout
Some degrees get you into fields.
Others serve as a replacement for an old school aptitude test which has been either outlawed or severely discouraged.
Others serve as a replacement for an old school aptitude test which has been either outlawed or severely discouraged.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:05 pm to Auburn1968
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As a raw statistic, it doesn't mention the most likely important fact like what their major was and how good was the college.
Colleges also accept anyone and every ahole has an undergrad and the market is saturated. Lots of kids also go to college only because mom and dad pays the bills or the govt.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:19 pm to teke184
Well, TBH, most of the restaurant staff in Louisiana seemed to be made out of people with B.S. that didn't want to move away from family, so at least LA's problem is an existing one. And has been for 30 years.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:22 pm to Auburn1968
As a formal journalism major I can attest. College is an absolute scam
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:31 pm to LemmyLives
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Well, TBH, most of the restaurant staff in Louisiana seemed to be made out of people with B.S. that didn't want to move away from family, so at least LA's problem is an existing one. And has been for 30 years.
My first day in geology class, the professor asked how many food service majors were in the room. He then had to spell out the joke he was talking about the theater kids.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:35 pm to Magyarok92
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formal journalism major I can attest
I'm asking this honestly... Why not major in English, get an MFA, or something similar, rather than Journalism? I'm not saying it would have been a panacea, but it would seem as Journalism is labeling and self-limiting.
Either you're of Hungarian heritage, or you're great at making up random user names. I think.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:36 pm to stout
Gender Studies, Art History, and Mass Communication will get you far.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:36 pm to stout
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Its findings present a bleak outlook for new graduates hoping that a degree will guarantee them significantly better opportunities.
The real problem is that high schools, society, colleges, etc are telling these kids just going to college is good enough.
When kids learn that what they study is more important than just getting a degree, college will become more relevant to job outlook after graduation.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:38 pm to teke184
You should have seen the people I was in Astronomy 102? with. Y'all can compute red and blue shift, but you're going to be living in your cars or in the grad dorm five years from now. Spend $300 on a graphics card, can't make your rent payment. Goooot it.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:41 pm to NYNolaguy1
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When kids learn that what they study is more important than just getting a degree,
But this starts, first and foremost, with parents.
I've said this before, but if I could have known that 25+ years of IT and information security would have been less rewarding than owning a plumbing/electrical company, I totally would have preferred dealing with toilets that aren't the boss of me.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:46 pm to stout
I'll bet that very few of them have STEM degrees.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:49 pm to stout
Colleges are dead anyway. They’re full of fluff courses to keep them paying 4 years of tuition. The top ones are way too expensive.
I have several friends in the software world and I dabbled with a software boot camp myself, before I decided it wasn’t for me. The common thread is that university coding students hate boot camp students because they didn’t pay anything upfront (based on salary after) and they know their shite way better.
College = dead.
I have several friends in the software world and I dabbled with a software boot camp myself, before I decided it wasn’t for me. The common thread is that university coding students hate boot camp students because they didn’t pay anything upfront (based on salary after) and they know their shite way better.
College = dead.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 8:57 pm to Monty Brewster
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Easy College = dead.
Fify.
Any engineering, finance, hard science or medical related degree is worth the money and investment.
Those courses of study are not easy though.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 9:01 pm to NYNolaguy1
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engineering, finance, hard science or medical
FYI, STEM has been redefined into STEAM (to include Arts) in major public school districts populated at least 50% with conservative parents in fancy districts in Houston. Dilute meaning, until it has no meaning.
Posted on 3/1/24 at 10:05 pm to teke184
Geology. What a joke. An Ohio state dean told me there’s only one kind of rock. A BBR. What’s that, I asked. A big brown rock.
I hate geology.
I hate geology.
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