I have mixed feelings about the peril of many Gen-Z college graduates. I’m convinced that many of them were fooled with the Great Lie of post-secondary degrees. What are your feelings about the young woman that Brett Cooper features in this video?
I have mixed feelings about the peril of many Gen-Z college graduates. I’m convinced that many of them were fooled with the Great Lie of post-secondary degrees. What are your feelings about the young woman that Brett Cooper features in this video?
Well the university advocacy group “Universities Canada” made an interesting attempt to quantify the “miraculous” value of a Canadian humanities degree a while back…which was assessed here:
https://www.theaudit.ca/p/whats-your-university-degree-really
Ahhhh, ahhhh, as he drools in his oatmeal.
Learn to dig coal. when EV’s become mandatory they are going to have to get the electricity from somewhere.
Plenty of Memes out there Displaying the differences between some utterly useless College/University degree in Vacuosity as opposed to becoming a trades person.
1 pisses away $$ on SFA to the avg tune of 250k over 4 yrs
The other amasses wealth while learning a trade (3-4 yrs)..and is likely 200k+ in the green. I would note that regardless of which Trade one learns, they all overlap in many many ways..and in time most of us became if not legally Certified, we knew our way around electrical stuff, carpentry stuff, concrete stuff, motor stuff etc.
All sorta useful shit no.??
But the Go To University MANTRA was already there in full force when I was in School back in the mid ’60’s. Anyone not “making the grade” was literally shunned. Off to “OCCUPATIONAL” … like it was a death sentence.
Teachers then, not much different in mentality/thought processes than those today.
Steakman, that’s exactly how I recall it too. I told my 3 boys 20 years ago that there would be no money for University, and to get a trade. All 3 did, which is just as well, because I would’ve bankrupted myself if I’d tried to fund post-secondary school.
Well life isn’t a bowl of cherries, no matter what the fking evil progs have been busily conveying the last 20 years or so maybe still rings true. The problem being kids don’t hear that much anymore.
Some do and they make me smile on one hand, and feel for them on the other as they may one day be out numbered, if they aren’t already.
I remember every one of them I’ve spent time with and came to respect before they moved on. I still call them to see how they are doing from time to time. They are a rarity.
That being said almost all of them had parents or a parent including a strong mother that expected something out of them, other than a reminder of when they where a born.
Nothing scientific but just what I have seen over forty years of working full time, starting with Portuguese men three times my age.
Looking back I was one lucky SOB and lets be honest we all were.
Nonsense wasn’t put up with most anywhere.
Home, school, or work
That should be – Alongside Portuguese men ….. 🙂
I can’t get uni grads to put a list in alphabetical order, last name first.
you have it all wrong.
the trick which l used is to be born in a time that matches one’s innate abilities.
a genius at agriculture is set for life in the middle ages (brief or long that life may be)
mechanic types were set for life in the industrial age all those trains, machines, boilers, gears, pumps, welding processes what fun.
l show up in the zhob market 1970 replete with my computer like autistic brain. real good at numbers, steeped in exactitude and eschewing the ’emotional’ aspects of working with others.
l was ‘the guy in the back room lab who could figure it out just dont expect explanations how he did it’
thus unlike today’s basement dwellers, l bought my 1st place 1976 good old thorold ontario aka ‘wap town’ at the spritely age of 25.
1 istsy bitsy example.
the organizations paycheques are on a tape. lots have been printed already.
the tape stutters. there’s an unrecoverable read error. what to do?
std procedure reload I/P files, rerun the program, rewrite the tape and do it all over again. time consuming to say the least given payroll still has to account for all cheques good bad duplicated whatever.
not good enough for mr autism.
for the 1st time EVER, l pause the print task and, get this, *opened the tape drive door and MANUALLY shifted the tape past the ‘bad spot’ with my fingers*, click the output 1 line at a time to realign the position of the blank cheque forms on the printer, all set, carry on.
then and only then payroll needed to ascertain which cheques were affected and issued them by hand, prob no more than 2 or 3.
l was born with the knack to do that but l had to be born in a time it was a useful talent.
wtf ‘era’ will it need to be that zhobs are plentiful for history majors?
see what l mean?
I do indeed. Thanks for the example.
Thank you for this story.
I graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design through the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. There were not many jobs in Winnipeg, so worked in Edmonton for 2 years doing space planning for corporate offices. Moved to Toronto and started working with a company which designed discotheques, hotels and restaurants – I loved my work! Became self-employed with the 1981 recession and started working on condominium public spaces – again loved the work.
Sadly, the schools of design proliferated and now far too many students are graduated at a time when the jobs are fewer because of computerization.
In retrospect, I should have gone into accounting, as I am “really,really good” with money. But I followed my passion and made money fixing up houses which were not loved. It is always difficult to know when the right time is for your profession, other than engineers and medical practitioners.
Yup. Applied common sense is seemingly rare. Summer job with the service crew at a coal mine. Boss was running the excavator, I was slinging the log booms so we could swap them out. One boom had split, 6 foot gap to cover, underwater. Boss started swearing.
I went back to the pickup. Emptied the wiper fluid container into the truck, tied a rope through the handgrid and through the hole in a rake-head (design had a hole between the forks and the handle). Took it back down to the water, made sure the empty plastic container could lift the rake. Held one end of the rope, pushed the end of the rake under the end of the logs we were trying to get towards the other side. Boss had stopped swearing and was watching intently. Float bobbed up on the other side, tied to the rope and rake head. I tied one end of the sling to the rope and pulled it under, set the sling, and motioned the excavator over.
Boss said to put his department down for next year and he was going to get me out using dozers and hoes if I wanted to learn (which I did). And the bugger retired over the winter so I never did get that job… (but I still enjoy the story, and feeling).
I kind of pity kids today, 13 years of social justice indoctrination have turned them into an army of snot and bawlers who are angry all the time. I was at a store a month ago and the girl gave me to much change, I explained that I gave her 100.25 cents she said no you gave me 125 dollars. She gave me back 25 dollars. I gave her the exact amount-I tried to explain her error but she wasn’t the least bit interested. I wonder if they took out the money from her paycheck?
I agree that indoctrination is part of it, but something else is going on. My wife is an elementary school Phys Ed teacher, and she says that 10-20% of the kids are possessed with an underlying rage that comes out at the slightest bit of adversity.
8-12 year old kids, who start throwing fists or breaking things if they lose a game in gym or get an answer wrong in math. Her school is at least partially locked down because of a kid freaking out multiple times a week.
It certainly doesn’t help that there are few repercussions for any behaviors because the administrators with advanced Education degrees believe in exactly the wrong strategies for dealing with kids.
I agree, the lack of discipline will be our down fall. I spent the better part of elementary school in detention for rolling my eyes, they never caught me doing it but somehow they knew I was rolling said eyes mocking my teacher.
I should add that my wife works in a suburban school in a town considered very desirable to live in. I imagine urban schools are like being dropped in the middle of a war zone at this point.
I was in retail for 36 years. When I started, I was expected to count my cash drawer prior to my shift, confirm the float, and cash it out at the end of shift. I was expected to be within 7 cents per $1000 if I wanted a “Good” rating.
When I retired 2 years ago, cashiers did NONE of those things. A supervisor did all of it. And last I heard, their base pay was $25/hr.
Degrees in Communications and Acting?
Just wants to be a TikTokker?
Sadly I think the only thing the education system bothered trying to teach her was the education is important mantra schools keep repeating while they abandon actual teaching of anything but leftist dogma.
Excuse me dear … but the government tells us the unemployment rate is 3.7% … pretty much a historically LOW unemployment rate.
There HAS to be a reason why this “girl” (if she’s younger than 25 and still covered by her mommy’s Obamakkare policy) can’t find a job. Maybe those illegal immigrants will work harder than her for less money and no backtalk from a “highly educated” woman. Maybe employers scan all of her social media footprint and disqualified her because she’s a massive risk? She has to be defective in some way.
3.7% unemployment. 3.7% of the American working public are easily woke FREAKS … who are effectively unemployable. Or … the government is lying to prop-up their marionette Biden? Or both?
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm
It’s really about coming out of a fantasy world and into reality. Didn’t she watch The Matrix? Also, if you took acting, act more confident and stop saying “like” every third word, because if someone asked me for a job and had such bad vocabulary after studying “communications” at university, I would file her resume under “G” as soon as she left the interview.
If I could offer some real advice to this young woman it would be to find an older person who is working, and get them to help you get in on the ground floor where they work and start from there. Getting started is the hardest part. From there … it’s up to you … unless you can suck up.
I admit to being harder on Z’s when looking at resumes or interviewing. I specifically look for any woke or far-left language and ask about the candidates ‘other interests’ as I really don’t want the social justice crap brought into my business to drag it down. The rage now is pronouns listed on resumes. I see that, it goes right in the trash, we don’t even get to the interview stage. Unfortunately, this generation has been brainwashed and indoctrinated by many things, not just the ‘gotta get a degree’ lie.
She wants to be an “influencer”, and every employer can see that coming a mile away, and wants nothing to do with it.
She also doesn’t seem to have the drive to put in all the effort required to make a career of it, and this video isn’t going to convince anyone that she’s worth hiring.
Maybe she can get a job with Justin’s Influencers Corp?
Back in my day a lot of kids who were really good at sports didn’t try hard enough with their academics because they were misguided in thinking they were going to get college scholarships then be pro athletes. The thing is, they thought this because they were really good at a sport.
Now my wife has several students who are 25-50 pounds overweight and can’t do 5 pushups at 12 years old and they don’t try hard in their classes because they are convinced they are going to be pro athletes, with the backup plan being professional video gamer. The thing is, they aren’t even good at sports let alone very good.
I remember a student who was going to be an NBA star, although he was short and not particularly good. But don’t try to take his dream away!!
You guys are missing the sheer arrogance and conceit that these young university types have. They know it all. They look down upon tradespeople. They never ask older adults for their advice. Twenty years packing bags at a supermarket might knock that out of them.
This is not new.. 40 years ago in high school we were told that you “had to go to university and get a degree”. It’s the dumb kids that go to Community College…they take “shops”.
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1970, 10% of Americans had a college degree. Today, 40% of Americans have a college degree.
This means, by simple math, that the average intelligence of college graduates has plummeted and, simultaneously, creates a large cohort of Americans who feel entitled to “college-worthy professions” without the intellectual aptitude for them.
They call this “the overproduction of elites” but that’s a bad way to frame it. These people are not elites. They think they have elite credentials, but they actually don’t. What they are are elite aspirants who have been sold a much-devalued credential and a lie for $200,000.
Hence, the explosion of email jobs, DEI offices, and administrative positions–which are the most susceptible to capture by resentment ideology.
Meanwhile, the cost of this college-degree bubble is shifted onto taxpayers, as the $1.6 trillionÂ
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I suspect that the number of worthy professionals produced by those same schools is still under 10% of the general population. Inflation isn’t just a monetary concern.
Boo hoo! Back in the 80’s when I graduated from highschool, we were all told to go to college too or we wouldn’t amount to anything. Of course, all our teachers and guidance counsellors had magically gone to college themselves. Self selection bias maybe?
I did go to college for two years before dropping the knowledge quest and getting a real job. Spent a couple years paying for that nonsense, especially since it costs an awful lot more for a kid from rural northern Canada to travel 12 to 14 bloody hours to a large city with a university in it, than it does for a city kid who can live at home and not worry about the rent, groceries, travel expense, furniture, etc.. I also remember at the time reading articles that it would take the average college grad until the age of forty to surpass the net worth of someone who just went out and got a half assed job right out of school. And college was much cheaper back then! (Libraries were much cheaper yet, and I could have learned pretty much everything there for free!) Of my room-mates, one dropped out and became a trucker – and started his own very successful trucking company. He retired at 50. Another dropped out and owns a feed-store in a small rural town. Another dropped out and sells insurance. We were all lied to as well.
Long gone are the days of the 1950’s to the 1970’s when only the top 10 or 20 percent attended college, and thus with even a relatively useless bachelor’s degree in English Literature or History, one could expect to reliably hire at least a high-level IQ person for their business. But since a bachelor’s is now like grade 12 used to be, that whole thing is out the window.
There are numerous studies out there now about businesses actually being burdened by hiring college grads/middle managers, as they are not much better than a government bureaucrat who goes out of their way to protect their position (chain of command – don’t speak to my own manager!) and stifle all innovations thinking it too risky, especially if it comes from some uneducate rube who has only been working on the floor for the past 25 years.
I cheered when I heard that since the pandemic ended, college grads working in Human Resources and other middle manager bureaucratic mental midgets are now number one in lay-offs. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of smarmy, no-nothing idiots. In fact, since the pandemic started, I have noticed a lot of people other than myself have taken a very hostile attitude to college grads. They certainly aren’t the smartest among us, and probably never were. Although in the past, most could write a coherent essay with passable spelling, grammar and punctuation. Every read a mainstream media website and notice all the errors? I’ve even seen some put a link on the bottom asking you, the reader, to correct their errors. Ummm, no. I already have to pump my own gas and bag my own groceries. I’m not correcting some journalism grad’s professional errors too.
I don’t want Gen Z or anyone else to learn to code. We have too many absolutely shite Node programmers already.
What the Western world needs is the Japanese model, starting yesterday. Zero public funding for any non-STEM post-secondary curricula, period.
Exactly, communications? An entire wasted degree in that subject? Acting? What company wants that degree? And no high school jobs? And she is embarrassed to talk to future employers by handing them a resume?
This woman is presently unemployable, tears and all. I would not hire her as a cleaner for my home! Too much life skills training required. McDonalds would not either!
I gave up on white work culture some years ago. I am thriving in the underground economy. The mess of regulations that had a good purpose at one time are now a skin suit worn by a meritless troop of prancing minstrels. For example, I know an electrical inspector who runs an underground business catering to his ‘community’. Material comes from kin folk who take ‘reparations’ from their work places. This is more normal than you would think.
I got to know the diversity. They are divided into defined groups that still wallow in ancient hatreds. They do not like each other in a way that reminds me of the stories my grandfather told me about Northern Ireland. If you learn the ‘cultural landscape’, you can navigate the jungle quite easily.
As for the Gen-Z creature, I laugh.