Gawker's Unemployment Stories

[Ed Anger]

I've read some. most start "i went to school for art... " and i tune out.

Funny how everybody with jobs suddenly turn into judgmental Baby Boomers and garbon.

I'm a judgemental Gen Xer who dropped out of something i knoew wouldn't give me a career and took something else. They get no pity from me for going into debt taking a degree that will do nothing for them.

I have turned into Ed. I am: old.

Society is fucked.

[garbon]

That doesn't surprise me 

Well if gawker rants make them feel better about their ruined dreams, let them have at it. We don't need that here though.

Right.  Because Marti rants are so much more valid.

Of course not but then we rowdily decry those too!

[Barrister]

I've read some. most start "i went to school for art... " and i tune out.

Yeah, but that was supposed to be good enough.  Still, the world needs ditch diggers too.  Going to college is usually a mistake in the US.

It was never good enough. I remember Arts degree = McDonalds job being a meme since i was in grade school, so no doubt it's older.

No shit.  I knew 20 years ago that I should get a BSc because at least it was marginally more employable than a BA.

[Barrister]

It was an Atlantic article.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-phd-bust-americas-awful-market-for-young-scientists-in-7-charts/273339/

But this article is focusing on PhDs.

I'll concede that a science degree isn't the path to riches either - but it's more employable than a BA.

[Valmy]

I am just looking for the path that goes someplace.  This fall I start hitting the job search with a 15 month timer until graduation.  I predict: pain.

[Phillip V]

Study petroleum engineering.

[Eddie Teach]

Study petroleum engineering.

Then 5 years from now they break through on fusion.

[Phillip V]

Study petroleum engineering.

Then 5 years from now they break through on fusion.

We can afford to be unemployed when fusion arrives. It will unlock enormous wealth.

[Valmy]

Study petroleum engineering.

I will have to hope electrical is enough.

[Phillip V]

I try to avoid any conversation or question of work/employment with people unless I know for sure that they are gainfully employed. It is no doubt awkward/embarrassing to have to explain your non-job situation over and over again to acquaintances and strangers, let alone nagging family/friends.

[Jaron]

Location is important too. Location and mobility.

[Barrister]

Location is important too. Location and mobility.

Mobility is a huge issue.

[Phillip V]

Location is important too. Location and mobility.

Jobs should come to me, not the other way around. I don't want to leave my friends and family.

If I have to move, it will only be to a hip and exciting city with beautiful people and shops where rent is affordable.

[Barrister]

Location is important too. Location and mobility.

Jobs should come to me, not the other way around. I don't want to leave my friends and family.

If I have to move, it will only be to a hip and exciting city with beautiful people and shops where rent is affordable.

That's not how it works.

Says I livingin Edmonton, with lots of jobs, but a shitty city with expensive real estate.

[CountDeMoney]

Location is important too. Location and mobility.

Mobility is a huge issue.

Not really.  Only because it worked for you doesn't make it true.