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Fired Before Hired: How The Economy Has K**led The American Dream.
Feb 15, 2015 12:25:38   #
cold iron Loc: White House
 
The scheme announced by Obama to make community college free will not make America prosperous or fully employed. While have a well educated, sk**led and knowledgeable populace is worthwhile, there is already a glut of over-educated degree holders – including many with master’s degrees and other specialized qualifications – who cannot find work in their field.
Why? Because the jobs just aren’t there. America doesn’t do much of anything anymore but consume. More and more sk**led jobs are paying wages as low as fast food joints, and are so flooded with applications, that the job may as well not be there. There is too much demand by a workforce for work that isn’t there… so most have lowered their standards, and become adjusted to skating by with low wage, low sk**led work when they have already over-achieved in the educational field. Student loans don’t get paid back this way, and the economy doesn’t bounce back either.

Unless the other side of this equation changes, there will be a continued downward slide, while millions more graduate with nothing to do, no where to go.

Fired Before Hired: How The Economy Has K**led The American Dream
The latest corporate s**m is to blame workers for the high unemployment rate. They say there is a sk**ls gap. Even President Obama is in on the joke.
In his most recent State of the Union address, Obama called for Congress to make community college free. Because nothing will get you a job more than an associate’s degree from your local college.
The real sk**ls gap is the other way around: too many sk**ls for the low-wage menial jobs that pervade the labor market. The person who makes your coffee or your Big Mac might be able to design the next major bridge or write for The New York Times. Instead of high school kids cooking up your lunch, true professionals are behind the counter, and the future of the country is behind it too.
If this doesn’t qualify the United States as a third world country, what will?
The longer they stay there, the odds increase that America will take a permanent backseat in global power. In one short century, we have gone from superpower to super size me, a plutocracy, a nation that wasted its most valuable resource: the energy and innovation of its own people.

As you send your resume for the latest job ad, do you ever feel like the labor market is r****d against you? The job boards have turned into such black holes that we need Stephen Hawking to come work out the equations for us. You send your resume in, and it disappears.

In 2012, Eric Auld, an unemployed 26-year-old with a master’s degree in English, decided to find out what was on the other side of the black hole. He created a f**e job ad as an experiment:
Here is a add for big office: Administrative Assistant needed for busy Midtown office. Hours are Monday through Friday, nine to five. Job duties include: filing, copying, answering phones, sending e-mails, greeting clients, scheduling appointments. Previous experience in an office setting preferred, but will train the right candidate. This is a full-time position with health benefits. Please e-mail résumé if interested. Compensation: $12-$13 per hour. -
If you have ever applied for a job like that, I offer my condolences. You have better odds at the casino. Auld received 653 responses in 24 hours. 10% of the applicants had more than 10 years of experience, and 3% of them had master’s degrees. Presumably, one of them would get the job.
But what does that mean? It means that all the other experienced applicants and master’s degree holders would remain unemployed. That is about 64 experienced workers and about 19 workers with master’s degrees. The only way to get a job like this is if you are sleeping with the human resources manager. And this is for a job that pays $12 in Manhattan. If this doesn’t qualify the United States as a third world country, what will?

As long as the nitwit left think they can tax and regulate America into prosperity, no company will come back to the USA.. SO, when 2016 comes make sure to v**e for the loony left candidate and we can stay in this state of s**t.
And Obama will keep bring illegal’s here to work for cheap. Good luck.

- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/no-demand-for-sk**led-jobs-millions-cannot-find-work-because-the-jobs-simply-are-not-there_022015#sthash.S3uuLZ2U.dpuf

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Feb 15, 2015 12:58:33   #
jimahrens Loc: California
 
There is one place that is Hiring. There extremely busy since Obama came to office. There is so much s**t going around that Toilet Paper Mfg. are working 24 - 7 so we can try to clean up the s**t.
cold iron wrote:
The scheme announced by Obama to make community college free will not make America prosperous or fully employed. While have a well educated, sk**led and knowledgeable populace is worthwhile, there is already a glut of over-educated degree holders – including many with master’s degrees and other specialized qualifications – who cannot find work in their field.
Why? Because the jobs just aren’t there. America doesn’t do much of anything anymore but consume. More and more sk**led jobs are paying wages as low as fast food joints, and are so flooded with applications, that the job may as well not be there. There is too much demand by a workforce for work that isn’t there… so most have lowered their standards, and become adjusted to skating by with low wage, low sk**led work when they have already over-achieved in the educational field. Student loans don’t get paid back this way, and the economy doesn’t bounce back either.

Unless the other side of this equation changes, there will be a continued downward slide, while millions more graduate with nothing to do, no where to go.

Fired Before Hired: How The Economy Has K**led The American Dream
The latest corporate s**m is to blame workers for the high unemployment rate. They say there is a sk**ls gap. Even President Obama is in on the joke.
In his most recent State of the Union address, Obama called for Congress to make community college free. Because nothing will get you a job more than an associate’s degree from your local college.
The real sk**ls gap is the other way around: too many sk**ls for the low-wage menial jobs that pervade the labor market. The person who makes your coffee or your Big Mac might be able to design the next major bridge or write for The New York Times. Instead of high school kids cooking up your lunch, true professionals are behind the counter, and the future of the country is behind it too.
If this doesn’t qualify the United States as a third world country, what will?
The longer they stay there, the odds increase that America will take a permanent backseat in global power. In one short century, we have gone from superpower to super size me, a plutocracy, a nation that wasted its most valuable resource: the energy and innovation of its own people.

As you send your resume for the latest job ad, do you ever feel like the labor market is r****d against you? The job boards have turned into such black holes that we need Stephen Hawking to come work out the equations for us. You send your resume in, and it disappears.

In 2012, Eric Auld, an unemployed 26-year-old with a master’s degree in English, decided to find out what was on the other side of the black hole. He created a f**e job ad as an experiment:
Here is a add for big office: Administrative Assistant needed for busy Midtown office. Hours are Monday through Friday, nine to five. Job duties include: filing, copying, answering phones, sending e-mails, greeting clients, scheduling appointments. Previous experience in an office setting preferred, but will train the right candidate. This is a full-time position with health benefits. Please e-mail résumé if interested. Compensation: $12-$13 per hour. -
If you have ever applied for a job like that, I offer my condolences. You have better odds at the casino. Auld received 653 responses in 24 hours. 10% of the applicants had more than 10 years of experience, and 3% of them had master’s degrees. Presumably, one of them would get the job.
But what does that mean? It means that all the other experienced applicants and master’s degree holders would remain unemployed. That is about 64 experienced workers and about 19 workers with master’s degrees. The only way to get a job like this is if you are sleeping with the human resources manager. And this is for a job that pays $12 in Manhattan. If this doesn’t qualify the United States as a third world country, what will?

As long as the nitwit left think they can tax and regulate America into prosperity, no company will come back to the USA.. SO, when 2016 comes make sure to v**e for the loony left candidate and we can stay in this state of s**t.
And Obama will keep bring illegal’s here to work for cheap. Good luck.

- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/no-demand-for-sk**led-jobs-millions-cannot-find-work-because-the-jobs-simply-are-not-there_022015#sthash.S3uuLZ2U.dpuf
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Feb 15, 2015 15:25:16   #
tom25411 Loc: WV
 
A masters degree in English is worth about as much as a degree in under water basket weaving.

There are plenty of good high paying jobs going unfilled every day. All you need is a 3 or 4 year degree in nursing or learn to drive an 18 wheeler and get two years over the road experience. Either will pay as much as a year's pay just to take and keep the job.

My grand son is a machinist. His employer has rent a cops patrolling the employee parking lot every day to shoo away the head h****rs trying to hire away his computerized milling machine operators.

So the jobs are there if you are prepared.

t

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Feb 15, 2015 15:41:12   #
Comment Loc: California
 
tom25411 wrote:
A masters degree in English is worth about as much as a degree in under water basket weaving.

There are plenty of good high paying jobs going unfilled every day. All you need is a 3 or 4 year degree in nursing or learn to drive an 18 wheeler and get two years over the road experience. Either will pay as much as a year's pay just to take and keep the job.

My grand son is a machinist. His employer has rent a cops patrolling the employee parking lot every day to shoo away the head h****rs trying to hire away his computerized milling machine operators.

So the jobs are there if you are prepared.

t
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Do you know why there are jobs for over the road truck drivers. It is a miserable job. You literally live in a damn truck 24/7 week after week. A few of the jobs are Union but, most are not. No vacation pay , not health care, no sick leave. My brother did it for 30 years. Never knew his kids. Says he'll never do it again.

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Feb 15, 2015 16:34:27   #
tom25411 Loc: WV
 
I know, My brother did it for 30 too. He was a Teamster, so has good union retirement, etc. Times are different now. These new drivers are starting out in new state of the art trucks and get all the perks. And, there are some people who like the open road, even the lot lizards! I would not want to serve on a sub marine, for example. One company near me starts their drivers at about $75 K, Full hospital and health care, choice of retirement plans, new equipment and have you seen the inside of one of these new Volvos? t

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Feb 16, 2015 16:47:22   #
jelun
 
Billhuggins wrote:
Do you know why there are jobs for over the road truck drivers. It is a miserable job. You literally live in a damn truck 24/7 week after week. A few of the jobs are Union but, most are not. No vacation pay , not health care, no sick leave. My brother did it for 30 years. Never knew his kids. Says he'll never do it again.


You get what you settle for.
Of course, he will never do it again. He is too old now. He made poor choices, that is not anyone's fault but his own.
Is there some reason that you think that sitting in a cold, wide open foyer making $12./hour (that's less than $20K) is a great position?

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Feb 17, 2015 10:45:33   #
tom25411 Loc: WV
 
I suppose you are referencing Wal Mart Greeters. Most of those folks are retired from somewhere with pensions and all the other perks. They are just lonely, bored and want something to do and it pays. It is a great place for girl watching too!

t

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