Originally Posted by
742Dash
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The rest of you guys can rant at boggy men, but Pielut has nailed the problem. I have kids 22 and 25, and the only friends of theirs that have found real work are the engineering majors. Everyone else is working at jobs well below what their majors would imply -- and these are not stupid kids.
Not stupid, but perhaps naive. A college education is not the ticket to a $50-75K/year job it was (in relative money) in the '60s and 70s. There are no guarantees in life, nobody is going to give you anything, and if you want something, you have to work for it.
I'm not saying there aren't repercussions for outsourcing. I'm saying that we've sold our kids on the notion that they have to have a college degree to set themselves apart so they can get a good job. Well, when everyone has a college degree, it ceases to be important.
This isn't one thing, it's everything. It's all interwoven and connected - there are consequences for more than just outsourcing.