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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
Older generations (that I’m a member of) do not understand how much tuition and fees have skyrocketed over the last decade.
They do if they’ve put their own kids through college!
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The College value chart points the way to the next trade in Z Park; make local networks to help people connect with their authentic dreams. Creative destruction of what was once the Corporate Systems’ work; into the real work one finds unattended and otherwise ignored until one’s awakening, day by day.
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A report I read claimed 88% of those protesting had jobs.
hey tudza, you don’t say. I would claim that 100% of those protesting _had_ jobs at one point or another.
…no, they really do have jobs. A good majority of them do.
Yeah, according to this survey (illustrated with pretty infographic), only 10% of the Occupiers are currently full time students. Only 12% are currently unemployed (though it seems that many are underemployed): http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/11/17/occupy-wall-street-demographics/
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…I would say “A = A well thought-out college degree in any economy”. I started college as the economy started to level out in ’04. In ’08 I graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and have been fully employed (with great benefits) ever since; and new offers pour in every week. When life turns to lemons, don’t cry ’cause you only know how to make Orange juice!!
Well, there are a lot of people available to protest due to a lack of job. Anyone complaining about it probably has one. That’s how I look at it.
Sorta runs with card 3057….
@JimmyC:
I entered college in 1970. My mother worked in the School of Business and Economics. at CSULA. Thus, I had the inside track with most of the professors. They counseled me to drop my initial major in economics because, “We see no jobs future in 1974 for any of the fields in business, except accounting.” I decided to follow the old wisdom that held, “A university education, regardless of the degree field, is enough to secure decent employment. It’s the fact that you have had an education that will impress employers.” I went with music. Naive freshman. And to think that I could have been part of the cabal that brought down the world’s economy. Dang.
It appears that today’s wisdom holds that universities become glorified trade techs, but with a good football team.