"you can always go into teaching." :) or grad school. or burn a pile of hundred dollar bills.
-jmz On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Michael Butash<mich...@butash.net> wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/it_grad_sues_school/ > > Couldn't help but think of this... > > My buddy went for an anthropology degree at a well respected east coast > college, and has worked to survive as everything from a mechanic to tech > support to management, none of which had any relevance to his degree. > He however still has 60k of debt over his head 12 years after the fact, > and will never utilize most of what his education was for. > > If that isn't depressing, I don't know what is, and this seems all the > graduating generations have to look forward to. I'm just glad I've been > able to get to where I'm at without having to have bothered with needing > a degree. I'm still waiting for the matrix-style learning to come along > for the superfluous trivia. > > -mb > > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:29 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:12 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> >> We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few >> >> people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense >> >> of a knowledge economy and to target a low wage-no tax strategy you >> >> could curtail all higher education government subsidy. >> >> >> >> If I were a politician I wouldn't want to break the news to my middle >> >> class voters that their kids don't have a prayer of going to college >> >> and >> >> will work low wage, low skill jobs. >> >> >> >> Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> >>> what I dont understand about the voucher system is, why are we >> >>> taxing just to give back credits? why tax at all? -jmz >> > ---- >> > well with a daughter who just graduated with an architectural degree >> > with no job prospects and her boyfriend having just graduated with a >> > business degree having no job prospects for the most part, the >> > educational system itself doesn't presently offer any prospects for much >> > of anything now anyway. In fact, America is not the same country it used >> > to be. >> > >> > As for JMZ's comments, I suppose that one of the intentions of the >> > taxation system is a redistribution of wealth in various forms which is >> > not necessarily a bad idea. An educated populace is a good thing. An >> > educated populace buried in educational debt is of little use. I think >> > the idea though is it would be better to have people going to school >> > than having the schools close, layoff personnel because enrollments are >> > surely declining as fewer can pay the costs of education which have >> > skyrocketed and the current prospects for employment on many degrees are >> > few. >> > >> > Craig >> > >> > >> All new graduates are having problems finding jobs. In third world >> countries it can be REALLY bad. However, I suspect that the >> marketability of architecture and business will come back with the >> recovery. Of course, the recruiters like to hire NEW graduates. Those >> who graduated into the recession may have stale degrees. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
