I am worried about my own 3 children as they get closer to post secondary choices. I would love to be able to afford to have them make their own free choices about what to study but they must choose a professional school or a trade school and it has to be something that looks like it will probably lead to future employment. If they want …
I am worried about my own 3 children as they get closer to post secondary choices. I would love to be able to afford to have them make their own free choices about what to study but they must choose a professional school or a trade school and it has to be something that looks like it will probably lead to future employment. If they want to do "Gender Studies" they can do it on their own dime. For taking this stand I have one out of the three who believes that I am one of the most ignorant men in the world. So be it. I might be on that spectrum LOL but I'm certainly not in the top 10%
That is of course a best guess but there are plenty of schools out there graduating students with the full knowledge that the jobs are currently NOT there at all. It's tougher these days than when I graduated. I had a choice of jobs in my chosen profession and I started work a week after I graduated. I stayed employed there for over 40 years. Now I'm in a clinic part-time after retiring with a decent pension. Never been out of work in over forty-six years. Not even for a week.
For that I take only partial credit. I've been lucky. But I also dreaded the idea of unemployment. I feel bad for graduates who can't get jobs after working hard in university with great expectations. It must be very disheartening.
I am worried about my own 3 children as they get closer to post secondary choices. I would love to be able to afford to have them make their own free choices about what to study but they must choose a professional school or a trade school and it has to be something that looks like it will probably lead to future employment. If they want to do "Gender Studies" they can do it on their own dime. For taking this stand I have one out of the three who believes that I am one of the most ignorant men in the world. So be it. I might be on that spectrum LOL but I'm certainly not in the top 10%
That is of course a best guess but there are plenty of schools out there graduating students with the full knowledge that the jobs are currently NOT there at all. It's tougher these days than when I graduated. I had a choice of jobs in my chosen profession and I started work a week after I graduated. I stayed employed there for over 40 years. Now I'm in a clinic part-time after retiring with a decent pension. Never been out of work in over forty-six years. Not even for a week.
For that I take only partial credit. I've been lucky. But I also dreaded the idea of unemployment. I feel bad for graduates who can't get jobs after working hard in university with great expectations. It must be very disheartening.