Author Topic: Low-paying Jobs Requiring College Degrees (Read 1706 times)

Matthew · « **on:** February 20, 2013, 05:39:49 PM »

What's worse than working for minimum wage? Working for minimum wage after spending 4 years of your life and taking on student loan debt.

$10 An Hour Jobs Requiring College Degrees

February 20th, 2013
Via: New York Times:
The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job.
Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth in the college-educated population. Like other employers across the country, the firm hires only people with a bachelor’s degree, even for jobs that do not require college-level skills.
This prerequisite applies to everyone, including the receptionist, paralegals, administrative assistants and file clerks. Even the office “runner” — the in-house courier who, for $10 an hour, ferries docuмents back and forth between the courthouse and the office — went to a four-year school.
“College graduates are just more career-oriented,” said Adam Slipakoff, the firm’s managing partner. “Going to college means they are making a real commitment to their futures. They’re not just looking for a paycheck.”

Telesphorus · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2013, 05:52:39 PM »

I actually read that article in the paper at the barber shop today.

They quoted a woman with a $100,000 in college debt, who said she didn't know when she would be able to retire the debt, but was very happy to have a $37,000 a year job.

Quote from: Bloomberg

In the old days, the U.S. program for foreign-student visas helped developing nations and brought diversity to then white-bread American campuses. Today, the F-1 program, as it is known, has become a profit center for universities and a wage-suppression tool for the technology industry.

Looks like even the Jєωιѕн press is having to admit there's a very serious problem.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-12/glut-of-foreign-students-hurts-u-s-innovation.html

Matthew · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2013, 09:03:01 PM »

I like the ridiculous spin they put on it:

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“Going to college means they are making a real commitment to their futures. They’re not just looking for a paycheck.”

Yeah, I know -- who does their job "for the money"? What are they, mercenaries? :rolleyes:

YES! It's called earning a living. It's called wanting to pay one's bills, to keep a roof over one's head, food on the table, and the lights on.

In my humble opinion, if I'm going to earn just $10 an hour, I *at least* want the small compensation of not having to worry about student loans. And I shouldn't have to spend 4 years of my adult life getting to that point!

It's difficult enough to live on $10 an hour even WITHOUT student loans...

Telesphorus · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2013, 01:12:12 AM »

Quote from: Bloomberg

According to the report, graduates endure a gantlet of postdoctoral jobs (quasi-student positions that extend doctoral training) at low pay and long hours for years, all the while not knowing whether a permanent job will materialize in the end. For those who do eventually secure an academic position in biomedical research, the median age when starting the job is 37.

The NIH commission found that these bleak prospects may be dissuading the best and brightest Americans from entering careers in science research, and cited the large number of foreign postdoctoral researchers as a major cause of the glut of lab scientists. The Government Accountability Office has noted the relationship between that oversupply to the availability of foreign postdocs. About 54 percent of these postdocs are foreign.

None of this is to say the foreign student program should be shut down. But we shouldn’t be reducing educational and career opportunities for talented Americans.

Except reducing opportunities, wages, and kicking the people who are down is the goal. The goal is a two-tier society of politically correct bastards and then everybody else.

ggreg · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2013, 02:51:29 PM »

Anyone who has been to University and got into debt and then takes a 10 dollar per hour job should not even have gone to university because they are lacking in common sense.

I pay a local 17 year old grammar school boy 10 dollars an hour to put my expenses in order or do some research on LinkedIn and Google and organise my life. He's learning the skills to behave in an appropriate way in an office, interact with people, communicate properly in emails, and getting some extra cash. With direction from me he is actually worth the money because he saves my time which is more than 10 bucks per hour.

There must be a hundred different ways that people could earn more than 10 dollars per hour without significant capital investment if they just had a little common sense and enterprise.

Zeitun · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2013, 12:53:30 PM »

Quote from: ggreg

I pay a local 17 year old grammar school boy 10 dollars an hour to put my expenses in order or do some research on LinkedIn and Google and organise my life.

No offense, but isn't that what a wife should be doing? Maybe I missed something.