| sethnintendo said: @Soleron, while your views might represent the private market decently, you are failing to realize the entire job market. Take my degree for instance (Wildlife and Fisheries Management). Sure I could find a private sector job that might stick up for the environment (while most private jobs involving this degree probably would be arguing for more lax rules) but there are very few. My main chance to use my degree would be working as a park ranger, controlled burning specialist, zoo keeper, etc. My degree mainly involves public jobs. Wildlife jobs are one of the first to be cut and if there are a bunch of old park rangers staying in their job then that means no job for me. Try getting a job in the Wildlife sector that adheres to your values then get back to me. Sure I probably chose a terrible degree but it is the old people staying in their jobs that is keeping me from being able to obtain a wildlife job. Case in point there isn't enough wildlife jobs for all the wildlife majors. |
But that is exactly the point I was making. You chose a degree in which you knew there was limited demand and you have to bear that. The old people being employed isn't the problem - it's that, you're right, the demand for wildlife jobs specifically won't grow with population. But in raw materials and manufaturing and services, those jobs WILL grow the more people out of the economy are working instead of retired.
@green_sky
I didn't mean to insult your choice of major. Economics is not one of those degrees with no application to jobs I was talking about, I just don't think it's taught well right now, too much like an arts subject where it's about debating opinions of dead people. I mean more like Theatre Studies or Social Care or Forensic Science degrees I see lots of low-ability people from my old school going into believing they would end up in the appropriate job (on the stage/for-life council job/CSI respectively).
