Unemployement rate drops to 8.1 percent....

[Sazari]

[The Comrade]

well that goes without saying. it's going to get to a point where ANY degree is better than no degree, simply because no degree means no job ever.

[Kane]

[Sazari]

[The Comrade]

how is the world you're describing contradictory to what i said?

[Sazari]

[jurupa]

[jurupa]

[jurupa]

[dontworrybehappy]

This problem started well before it being recently announced that my generation is now known as the boomerang generation.

In 2001 I graduated from a university with a 4 year business degree in insurance and finance. When I got out I couldn't find a job, and when I got one right after 9/11 it was a low pay job that wasn't in my field. I remember thinking "This isn't what I was promised when I started college." The most frustrating thing was that people I'd graduated high school with who went straight to work, were making more than me, far more than me, some of them already in supervisory positions. I was at the bottom of the totem pole where I worked. That was when I realized that all college really did for me was keep me out of the work force for four years. It put me ahead in education, but 4 years behind in the work world. I had to move back in with my parents and work a very low paying job to save up to go BACK to school. I got a second degree in aviation, an aircraft mechanics license and it was only THEN that I was able to make decent money in my field of study. Now I'm managing a corporate jet operation and not really using my mechanics license that much, but that's ok, I have it. It will be there for me for the rest of my life.

I'm now of course making more than I ever have in my life, but it wasn't my bachelors degree that really did it, it was the experience I gained in my low pay job at an airport, as well as the mechanics license, that got me in the door where I work now. It's sad, 4 years of my life, 8 thousand dollars later, and nobody even seems to care.