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The stats on graduates are alarming. What a waste of money and a ball and chain around your neck for the foreseeable future.LowIQTrash » Today, 3:18 am » wrote: ↑ I am not party to the "blame Boomers indiscriminately" Club (although I make fun of their narcissism often)...but you have to admit when the only Bachelor Degrees left that produce an underemployment + unemployment rate below 20% are Education, Nursing, and Civil / Aerospace Engineering, something is seriously wrong at the systemic level and the whole Ponzi is going to collapse.
Keep in mind all of those occupations and hiring organizations are reliant on govt funding as well (schools, hospitals and clinics, defense contractors for aerospace and infrastructure contractors for civil)
Plug this into your AI and let it tell you what it means
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeMajors/ ... rees_that/
Note I specifically included the underemployment rate as well because a case where someone who wasted 4 yrs and $70K of money to get a degree that doesn't produce $100K/yr in taxable income after maybe 2-3 years is a serious misallocation of societal resources even if they are employed doing something else (fruitful or not).
Arguing whether these people are "lazy" or not at that point sounds like JoO-ish propaganda and gaslighting.
@Cannonpointer
Strict Degree Alignment:
Only about \(27\%\) of bachelor's degree holders end up working in a job that closely matches their major.
The "Don't Want To Work In Field" Factor:
While specific surveys show some graduates simply don't want to pursue their major (especially in fields like Public Health or Biological Sciences), studies suggest that up to \(40\%\) to \(45\%\) of graduates experience a complete mismatch between their degree and the career they ultimately land in.
Long-Term Outlook:
Approximately \(45\%\) of graduates are still working in jobs that don't require their degree a full decade after graduation.
I didn't even like highschool, too boring. Going to college wasn't on the list. Playing around in the Bering Sea was a little more exciting!