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re: New Survey Shows 75 Percent of Graduating College Students Have Yet to Secure a Job
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:13 am to conservativewifeymom
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:13 am to conservativewifeymom
Kids would do much better if they learned a high demand trade these days.
College degrees unless very specific study, are worth a HS diploma
College degrees unless very specific study, are worth a HS diploma
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Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:13 am to _Hurricane_
quote:Gen z objectively sucks
No! It’s just because Gen Z is lazy and autistic! That’s the only explanation, don’t you get it?
A lot of older people on here think way too highly of themselves and think it’s just the same as when they were coming up.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:14 am to RohanGonzales
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fun fact - a convenient side effect of colleges going DEI was that they could let in connected leftist white kids with no worries about their actual intellectual capacity (AKA the Kennedy effect)
You believe this didn’t happen until “colleges went DEI”?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:18 am to LSU7096
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DEI & HR has had a very negative impact on companies. Best qualified are not hired, have to meet the DEI quotas
Turns out Diversity isn't strength, it's habitually late and has an unearned sense of accomplishment.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:21 am to Diego Ricardo
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Police recruiting is in the tank because the prevailing sentiment is A) you're not going to be supported if you're following orders and doctrine, something unfortunate happens, but it is a bad look for the elected officials side B) you're going to be doing things in service of the local elites that likely just amounts to haranguing poor and homeless people.
For sure. There are multiple reasons police recruiting is in the tank. Your examples are higher on the list, I agree. Most people think they are going to college to earn high wages so that’s why I said they think policing is beneath them.
As far as not wanting the educated, you may be right. I’m just pointing out that having security guards as the cops of the future is going to rear its ugly head everywhere.
This post was edited on 5/4/25 at 10:22 am
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:28 am to conservativewifeymom
This may seem counterintuitive, but when we look back in a few years, this may be a great time for entrepreneurship and innovation as fewer jobs lower the risk to strike out on your own.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:15 am to OT_10
quote:By zero experience, you mean kids that graduated and never worked a summer job or internship? I ask because my daughter worked four different jobs and an internship. When she graduated (OU - '23) with a Finance degree, her package from the company she went with was low six-figures. She's since then been hired away from that company and is now working as an investment analyst for commercial real estate in Austin.
Problem is they think they should come out and earn 70k with zero experience. I always hear it’s not worth it from them when talking to a few. False hope taught in colleges these days.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:03 pm to conservativewifeymom
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Entry level' jobs are expecting 3 years of experience.
This makes no sense. It rules out all applicants new to the workforce with no experience, but anyone at a competing company in the same industry with 3 plus years experience would likely already moved up the ladder in position or pay scale, so to jump to another company’s entry level position would likely mean a step down and pay cut.
They’d almost never fill the position. Unless it’s not truly entry level and college graduates have too high of expectations and have a different view of what entry level is
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:06 pm to DaTruth7
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Sports Management? Your son has a worthless major. Congrats
well gee, thanks
A lot of people who love sports do very well in this industry..and like what they do
but thanks for your contributions
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:07 pm to conservativewifeymom
We’ve over saturated in many fields on 0-2 yrs experience and undersaturated in literally every other yrs of experience range. It’s really bizarre. But most companies refuse to take a chance on kids with no experience now, it’s too hard to fire people, and when there’s no experience you don’t have a gauge of how they’ll do in a work environment
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:07 pm to conservativewifeymom
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and 34 percent have not even started to apply for jobs
Well, that’s a horse of a different color.
Also, this was only 378 students. And included 2- and 4- year graduates.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:22 pm to conservativewifeymom
It’s not quite as bad as the headline, it says only 2/3 have started looking for jobs. For those who are looking, 41% found a job (80% of which are full time). That is still not good numbers
It’s based on this study:
LINK
It’s based on this study:
LINK
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:34 pm to conservativewifeymom
Well, I graduated from Abramson High School in 1972 and got the Produce Manager's job at Winn-Dixie right after graduation. I was able to buy a home on Hickerson Drive and raise a family.
So, I have no sympathy for these lazy kids today. If I can do it, anybody can, say I.
My life was great until my wife ran off with the butcher.
Just kidding. I'm doing my impression of a Boomer.
So, I have no sympathy for these lazy kids today. If I can do it, anybody can, say I.
My life was great until my wife ran off with the butcher.
Just kidding. I'm doing my impression of a Boomer.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:36 pm to conservativewifeymom
Hell we have a 4 year inside wireman program. Once you graduate you can go on the road (make as much as you want to work) or stay home and make 75k. All you pay for is your books.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:37 pm to Westbank111
More people going into trades would water down wages there. Wages are high because there is a shortage of workers that can pass a drug test and show up on time.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:40 pm to redneck hippie
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they are young I’d recommend starting at the dead arse bottom and working their way up.
Teens need to start working summer jobs in high school again. Too many never have a job until after college
Even if the summer job is a minimum wage job that has nothing to do with the career you’re pursuing, it still gets you valuable real world experience in dealing with bosses and responsibilities. It looks good on a resume that you worked when you really didn’t have to work at that point in life
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:43 pm to conservativewifeymom
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Truly worrisome
Welcome to good burger, home of the good burger. May I take your order?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:44 pm to deltaland
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it still gets you valuable real world experience in dealing with bosses and responsibilities.
And you get to learn all about drugs and skanky lower class women.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:46 pm to SlowFlowPro
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And you get to learn all about drugs and skanky lower class women.
like young lawyers in the criminal "justice" system?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 12:47 pm to deltaland
Working a shitty job in high school or college will teach you the importance of education real quick.
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