WHY CANT US COLLEGE GRADUATES FIND JOBS. minorities find tougher?
This is what I've found on my job hunt. 1)You almost, always have to go through a staffing agency to find a good job. In fact, the jobs in my town are almost impossible to get with some of the biggest companies unless you go through a staffing agency to get something temp and get introduced to someone who has hiring power (this actually happens quite often if you have a college degree). 2) You sometimes have to take jobs that don't pay enough to support yourself. There's a reason college students are moving back in with parent's and staying there...there are no jobs for them that pay a high enough wage for them to support themselves with their student loans. Do this to gain experience and move up and throughout a company...the suggestion is 3-5 years per company/job and 3)You sometimes have to go where the jobs are. If I wanted to go into accounting, I'd head to Charlotte. If I wanted to get into marketing, there are a surprisingly large number of companies who hiring for marketing both in California and Atlanta. If I want a job that just pays well and don't care where I end up...I'd head to North Dakota. You go where the jobs are located if you can...if you can't you do what you have to until you find something. It sucks (trust me, I'm a college grad with a background in retail management who can't even land a retail management job right now) but the rules are so much different than the first time I came out of college. It took me barely anytime to find something to hold me over and even then, I already had an offer with a different company before I even graduated from undergrad. Not so much luck this time. Push come to shove, go into sales or insurance. Both are great opportunities to gain some valuable skills and can pay big bucks if you work hard enough.
I don't want to go to college after graduating?
After years of stressing, pulling my hair out, not enjoying my life even a little bit, and severe depression, I've decided that I probably don't want to go to college/university. After next year, I'm graduating. I'll be 16, and I'll have to figure out what I want to do with my life by then or my mom will force me to go to college (she's not letting me leave the house or live with my father who's much more progressive until I'm 18, which I hate.) I never really wanted to go to college, even when I was younger, because I didn't find the replaying of stressing over school adding debt and a boring work life much fun. I'm going to start my own business while my mom is making me stay at home and see how it goes, but I don't want to tell her that I'm considering not going to college because I know she'll tell me I'm making a big mistake and that I'll regret it. People say that college isn't the same as high school, but people told me that high school would be better than middle school, middle school would be better than elementary, etc. Are they right? Will I regret that choice? Will it be better than high school, or will I be spending four years stressing about money and grades all over again? I'd rather off myself than go through that again, I honestly hate school, and want nothing to do with the people and schools where I live once I leave it.
Why do the majority of college graduates have an entitlement mentality to expecting a good paying job?
So many college graduates are on their high horses because they have a college degree. There are so many out there who are unable to find good paying jobs, or if they're working, they are complaining that they're working minimum wage jobs. Why do so many college graduates have this entitlement mentality?
I am a high school student and I want to work at NASA. What should I do?
High school? I've got some bad (and good) news for you. You need to cram. You could get a job, but you are competing against many kids like me growing up. But there is hope, because you can catch up (you can't rely on hope; you have to work hard). My luck was to grow up 30 miles from JPL and had a friend whose dad worked there on Surveyor (and I had an internship in high school at North American Rockwell). And actually, I didn't start out working for NASA (I changed majors in college).I decided to get into science and engineering in 4th grade. I gave serious consideration to becoming a professional astronomer by 6th grade. By 9th grade, I took a 2nd place in a technical field at my State's fair. That could have been Westinghouse Science Fair and other equivalent. There's many bright kids: your competition. There were 48 smarter kids in my high school class than me (mostly Asian-American). I was not a straight-A student (in high school (you have a chance); I knew the 5 straight students (know 1 still now at Berkeley); I knew #6 too, et al). I've got friends with kids smarter than me. You have to distinguish yourself. If you could only understand how looking at resumes creates eye glaze over. So you have to get off your butt, and take what Admissions Officers call STEM classes (Science, Technology (what ever that means), Engineering, and Math (my first degree and a journal topic I was an editor (without a PhD))). You want to master all the mathematical tools, programming, and empirical lab skills that you can. And actually shop time is useful. Handing dangerous chemicals is useful. Learning now to fly is useful. You do not want to be one of those students who takes calculus who says 2 decades down the line "I saw no use for it." You want to develop good (superior) problem solving skills. In some cases you will only get one chance. You need to develop wisdom early.You will have to overcome disadvantages you have over the advantages of people who are local; people who have better GPAs; went to higher ranked colleges (their perception is deserved or not); or maybe they are female or non-white, and so forth. This is the 2nd question of this type I was asked to answer in 24 hours. Kelly Johnson who designed planes from the P-38 to the SR-71 had a Masters degree and was handed a broom and started as a janitor before he designed those aircraft. And I can cite computer examples of that, too.