@Elmud,
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I was thinking about my niece this week. She has spent a lot of time and effort achieving her masters degree. She has spent the past few months seeking employment that is compatible with her level of education. She can find none. She has been willing to take just about any job available, but, she has to refrain from divulging any info about her educational level because they would consider her to be overqualified and the moment something better came along, they know she would split. So, she has all this education, and no place to go with it.
In another case, I know a young man who is a computer analyst. He got his degree from Ariz. State Univ. years ago and has been working for a large corporation for some time. He was layed off along with hundreds of others. Their jobs were sent overseas. So now, he freelances. No jobs available.
Yeah. I quite understand. I have Honours Bachelors in Philosophy, but I don't mention that at all when I was interviewing. I mention that I have a Bachelor with good to excellent grades in my Computer Engineering courses. It took me almost a year to find work in the tech field.
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In times past, it was always my thought that higher education insured that a person could secure quality employment that could last a lifetime. I do not think that is the case anymore.
I never thought that at all. A higher education meant that it was more probable to get employment, but that networking, luck, and CHARISMA were more important for securing a job.
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Maybe there are too many wannabe chiefs and not enough native americans. I don't know. My girls are in college. One, going for her nursing degree, {which I feel is a good field to get into considering there is a shortage of nurses, and also, because there will always be a demand for nurses), another, is going into health care administration which i believe is also secure for the same reasons. My little one, the youngest, is studying to be an English teacher. I feel that the field of education is also somewhat secure. But, what about the others? How much work is out there for the Astro Physicist? The philosopher? The chemists? And why, in the world are we shipping our jobs overseas anywho?
My take is that if everyone has a higher education.... no one has a higher education. Because of that, there are so many qualified people and so little job positions for each of these people, and thus leading to lack of employment. There were so many Computer Science guys, but not enough jobs to fill it; the years 2001-2006, 2009 were the worst years for being a CS graduate in North America.
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I want to throw this in. I build cabinets. There is American made equiptment that we use, that is quality equiptment. There is also Chinese equiptment that we have, because it was less expensive, that is far inferior to the American made. It simply falls apart after minimal use. Its junk. There is american made plywood that we often use, which is quality material. But, due to cost, there have been times when foriegn plywood was purchased instead of the american plywood. Mostly, Chinese or South American. Once again, the foriegn plywood is not only out of square, but it delaminates as well. Its junk.
It's much cheaper, and the official blurb is that its supposed to be "good as or better than" its Canadian or American made product (even though you and I might think it's "junk"). And not even products, jokes like Indian Call Centres, have merit: why pay a Canadian $12/hour, when you can pay the Indian counterpart minimum wage (45 rupees = $1.10 Canadian dollar), for pretty much the same quality work (aka, read from a script, practice on the training model). It's about saving money all da way.
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It is my belief that if our young people are going to make an investment in education, then they should expect to recieve the dividends that quality education has always provided. Maybe we have overprised ourselves. But, that is another subject. The focus of this message is the disappearance of quality jobs for educated young people, and why.
The official blurb about higher education is that it is an end onto itself rather than a means. Of couse a means is necessary in our day to get work and thus money. My views on education since passing through university has become more pessimistic (in terms of employment). I think that although education is an investment, it is also a platform for individual growth. Being entitled to dividends has just become a privilege for great individuals (and if there's room/surplus/good economic conditions; very good individuals)
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