Posted: 3/19/2012 8:48:13 AM EDT
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Found this article interesting, especially so for advocates of vocational/technical education and the trades.
Occupy a Job Joel Leonard of SkillTV.net notes that there are 3.5 million unfilled jobs (more than 40 percent are in skilled trades) compared to more than 14 million people out of work, yet students are still being told that if you want to be a success, you need to go to college and incur a huge debt. Amy Earle, vice president, Antech Systems, adds that “so much of the news these days discusses high unemployment rates and the lack of jobs.” The Occupy a Job app and the United Skills of America movement sends a different message: the path to a successful career may not be through traditional college and well paying jobs do exist.
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| It's a nice concept, but they fail to take into account that most of the "Occupy" folks and college kid bitching about jobs....don't want jobs. They don't want to work. They want to get paid to sit around bitching about not being able to find work. Career college students are a plague on our country, imho. |
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It's a nice concept, but they fail to take into account that most of the "Occupy" folks and college kid bitching about jobs...don't want jobs. They don't want to work. They want to get paid to sit around bitching about not being able to find work. Career college students are a plague on our country, imho. Yeap. |
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It's a nice concept, but they fail to take into account that most of the "Occupy" folks and college kid bitching about jobs....don't want jobs. They don't want to work. They want to get paid to sit around bitching about not being able to find work. Career college students are a plague on our country, imho. Fact. |
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It's a nice concept, but they fail to take into account that most of the "Occupy" folks and college kid bitching about jobs....don't want jobs. They don't want to work. They want to get paid to sit around bitching about not being able to find work. Career college students are a plague on our country, imho. Very true, but I think the idea here would be stopping the whole "you HAVE to have a degree to get a decent job" mentality among young folks who haven't yet reached college age. One can make a very nice living by learning a skill or trade and forgoing racking up debt to get a degree. If, later in life, you need a specific degree to advance your career, you can probably afford to do so with cash, you know what you need to major in, you know that a degree in that major will pay for itself, and you're smart enough to realize that getting that degree from a state school is just as good as getting it from an Ivy League school. I believe that one contributing factor to developing the occupy mentality is the belief that a degree in womyn's studies or dance earns you the "right" to a high-paying job "in your field". Meanwhile, we're running short on skilled tradesmen. Just the view from my perch, which is pretty limited. |
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It's a nice concept, but they fail to take into account that most of the "Occupy" folks and college kid bitching about jobs....don't want jobs. Word. I thought the statistics on unfilled skilled-work jobs were the really interesting bit, though. I probably should've gone to trade school instead of college. 
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