It yours.

You didn't have to go to college, you made that choice too. You could have started at a company out of high school and worked your way up. You could have gone to a technical school and learned a skill for a specific job. If you keep blaming others you won't fix your self. If you can not find a job with your degree you need to find a different path. You have options but you have to realize that and you have to choose to use the options you find. Blamng the system will get you no where. If you believe the sytem is set against that is fine, you still have to deal with it and find a way. So many  others are able to why are you not? is what you should be asking.

What are you qualified to do? How can that be used to create a job for yourself?

Ultimately, it is up to you to find work not up to others to give work to you

"Market distortion has made it hard for me to find a job."

Solution? MOAR DISTORTION.

Other people know people, and that's how they deal with it. Networking is cheating.

Just go into Nursing, they are hiring all over.

My fiance went into an accelerated course to get her LPN license and now she already got bumped up to nursing supervisor at the pediatrics office she works at.


Speakingo of baby-boomers, I have a 79 year old at my job. He builds aircraft parts. I have another 70+ year old male who works in Quality Control.

My backup would likely be IT if i truly felt like i was backed up against a wall. I'm just being bitter today because i feel like it (and because fricking nobody ever calls me back!)

Exactly what my mother did.

Took her longer than normal but with the right LPN program you can finish in 11 months and make 6 figures in less than a year.

I agree with you somewhat. Employers are offering poor terms because they can, and the previous generations certainly had it easier finding a job. What you're describing is accurate, but there's nothing we as individuals can do to change that.

The problem is that people are doing degrees in something /that they wanted to do/ instead of what the market was desperate for, and then they expect there to be jobs in those fields when they finish. Instead, look for fields which ARE hiring and go for them, early. However there's not much you can do once you made the wrong choice already except wait out the recession or move to where there are jobs.

Don't agree with the firing old people unless they are no longer good at their jobs, because when the economy picks back up you'll have those perfectly employable people being paid to not work.

On social policy, pensions DO need to be greater, unemployment benefits need to be greater for recent graduates at least until jobs become more available, and tuition fees need to come way, way down. Especially for courses that lead to jobs in demand. I like the idea that the people who go to college to do Sociology and drink will be subsidising the people who make an economically minded choice of major.

Could be worse. We could be of the generation of people who were told that steel mills would ALWAYS be around and a job there would provide for your whole family.

It's all about location.