Horribly OT <odious troll food>

[Michael Butash]

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.
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