Employers Rethink Need for College Degrees in Tight Labor Market

[Rocko20]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

If the military, even today, is "not adverse," then college, especially today, is certainly "not adverse."

Well one of those is an actual job where you are paid money to do something, and the other doesn’t guarantee you any job at all.

I’ll let you guess which one is which.

[Slater]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

But how many chose to go to college instead, seeing the Air Force as too adverse even to consider...and then failed to finish college, too?

Unknown. But they're probably pouring coffee for a living.

[redguard57]

Originally Posted by Slater

Unknown. But they're probably pouring coffee for a living.

I doubt it, if the service labor market is any indication. If there are so many un and under-employed graduates, why can't coffee shops find workers?

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2022...s-complicated/

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/ar...dent-employess

https://www.willistonobserver.com/bu...f1853e0d3.html

https://news.yahoo.com/richmond-coff...y4RUZ_5JKuxzrH

https://kenyoncollegian.com/news/202...th-resilience/

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/barista...a-then-leaves/

Somebody please send them the gender studies majors!

People think that college graduates had to work service jobs forever but don't take into account how the economy was crap after 2008. Yes if you were a young college graduate at that time, like I was, you applied for entry level jobs and you were competing with literally 100 other people for that 1 job, of which 70 of them had 10 or 20 years experience. I remember going to SO many group interviews and seeing dozens of people 20-30 years older than me vying for the same position. They had 1-2 decades of experience on me so yes there was no way I could compete. Therefore some of us worked in retail longer than we would have liked.

Now that's not the case.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by redguard57

I doubt it, if the service labor market is any indication. If there are so many un and under-employed graduates, why can't coffee shops find workers?

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2022...s-complicated/

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/ar...dent-employess

https://www.willistonobserver.com/bu...f1853e0d3.html

https://news.yahoo.com/richmond-coff...y4RUZ_5JKuxzrH

https://kenyoncollegian.com/news/202...th-resilience/

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/barista...a-then-leaves/

Somebody please send them the gender studies majors!

There's more than one thing going on there. One problem is that those jobs pay little and have lousy working conditions, so they tend not to keep workers long. Musical jobs is the game that ensues.

People think that college graduates had to work service jobs forever but don't take into account how the economy was crap after 2008. Yes if you were a young college graduate at that time, like I was, you applied for entry level jobs and you were competing with literally 100 other people for that 1 job, of which 70 of them had 10 or 20 years experience. I remember going to SO many group interviews and seeing dozens of people 20-30 years older than me vying for the same position. They had 1-2 decades of experience on me so yes there was no way I could compete. Therefore some of us worked in retail longer than we would have liked.

That's because a heck of a lot of 50-year-olds got laid off before they were financially able to retire. Unfortunately, those 50-year-olds needed higher pay because they had greater financial responsibilities, so their experience wasn't always positive...employers often preferred the less expensive college grads. A lot of them had to keep their college graduate kids at home as well. Both ends of the workforce got slapped.

Now that's not the case.

It's not so different post-Covid.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by Rocko20

Well one of those is an actual job where you are paid money to do something, and the other doesn’t guarantee you any job at all.

I’ll let you guess which one is which.

No 18-year-old thinks the military will be more lucrative than a college education...

....unless they've gotten some very savvy (and relatively rare) advice and somehow believes that advice more than 12 years of education industry pro-college propaganda.

The GI Bill is a hellatiously good deal, and a 22-year-old veteran is usually far better prepared for college than an 18-year-old high school graduate, but the vast majority of 18-year-olds don't want anything to do with the military, especially if they are headed for college.

[redguard57]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

No 18-year-old thinks the military will be more lucrative than a college education...

....unless they've gotten some very savvy (and relatively rare) advice and somehow believes that advice more than 12 years of education industry pro-college propaganda.

The GI Bill is a hellatiously good deal, and a 22-year-old veteran is usually far better prepared for college than an 18-year-old high school graduate, but the vast majority of 18-year-olds don't want anything to do with the military, especially if they are headed for college.

The mikitary doesn't even need that many of them. There are 15 million college students. The military needs about 125k recruits per year.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by redguard57

The mikitary doesn't even need that many of them. There are 15 million college students. The military needs about 125k recruits per year.

USA might be better equipped for a workforce and economy if there were 5 million less college students and 5 million more workers and business owners.

Hopefully the college day-care days are soon over.

[spencer114]

I haven’t read through all of the comments so excuse me of it has been said before…

Companies used to actually train you on the job. Utilities companies would turn high school graduates into engineers. Now we are expected to bear the cost of training ourselves (college) before anyone even thinks about hiring us. We bore the expense so that companies could boost profits. I’m hoping that this will be a real turn back to the days when employers invested in the employees and didn’t expect the us to go into personal best just to have the luxury of employment.

All that said, check the sources on articles like this. You’ll find that the talking heads and politicians downplaying the value of education ALL have Ivy League (or prestigious state school) degrees and will continue to send their children and grandchildren to the very schools they are trashing on the air. They understand the value, they just don’t want your kids to have the same options are theirs.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by redguard57

The mikitary doesn't even need that many of them. There are 15 million college students. The military needs about 125k recruits per year.

That's true, and that's my response to suggestions the US needs mandatory conscription.