Originally Posted by
LowSlowT2
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.
So what career avice do you give a 16 year old? It is fine to say that there are no guarantees, which is true, but we ought to be able to tell them that there is oppertunity. And right now there is not a lot of the latter. From teaching to law to business you find former high performing students stocking shelves.
And for the record my kids are fine, but their generation as a a whole is in deep trouble that is not of their making.