When Your Degree Is Worthless?

 I read through a Bloomberg business report today....which laid out this odd trend.  Around 50-percent of recent college graduates (I sense they meant from spring 2022  to spring 2023....are working high school-level jobs.

Meaning?  They might be the 'boss' of a car rental shop at some airport (which was always a high-school situation). Or they might be the sales gal of some cellphone shop at the mall.

Why?  Well....after submitting their resume around.....most in this category fell into a 'pit'...where the $40,000 college-grad level had nothing going on.

A Biden, or Bidenomics thing?  On the positive side....they are employed and pulling in something.  On the negative side...they probably still live in dad's house, and dad is feeding them.....with maybe some coverage deal of car insurance going on.

Here's my problem....you might linger in this job for a full-year, and on your resume.....you are basically saying there's something odd about my work situation and I'm doing the work of a high-school guy/gal.

If you are still there at the rental-car shop (as chief) after two years?  Yeah, that labels you a classic 4-star college degree loser.  

Finally, just an odd observation....to be honest, I could hire 10-percent of the sixteen-year old high-school (yet-to-graduate) crowd, as a temp-boss of a car-rental shop....over you.  

Fixing Text

There's some schools talking about pulling To Kill a Mockingbird (the classic) because of racial discrimination text.  

The aim?  Well.....all that sensitive text and dialog.

I sat and pondered over this.

Maybe you just need to change the characters.

This Finch-guy for example....why couldn't he be Bombay-Indian-American?

The daughter?  'Scout'?  She could be half-transgirl, half-transboy,  half-wolf.

This 'Boo' guy who was always so mysterious?  Make him into an escaped lunatic clown-killer.

This Calpurnia-gal....the black-cook in the house?  Make her into a freaked-out Texas gal who seems to be cocaine an doped-up half the time.

This Bob Ewell guy?  The guy who was mostly drunk and never seemed to have a dollar....but accuses Tom Robinson of raping his daughter?  Make him into a fired CNN executive who has brain-fog from Covid.  

I'm sure that we can fix the text....to make folks happy.

Newcomers?

 I saw this BS yesterday and spent about ten minutes trying to imagine how they sat in some 'bubble' and invented the term 'newcomers' out of the Biden White House.

I suggested to my brother....we, being citizens....would logically be 'oldcomers' or 'old-timers', but that really doesn't fit.

I would imagine some news media folks sat there and conversed with Biden team and told them....'aliens' or 'illegals' conveys negatives. 'Newcomers'?  Well,  it conveys new people (not strangers).

So I pondered upon this.  In rural Alabama, 1970s....there was always some hyped-up positive feelings about new people moving in, or hearing about some family from Ohio....having arrived in the community.  In some ways....the Ohio folks were like French-people....from just so FAR off.

The fact that Biden's team being just awful unconnected to reality or the nation itself?  Well....after a while...you get this impression. In some ways, you get the impression they attended some college, and after four years....left with less intelligence than they had on day one.

The news guys accepting this BS and repeating it?  Yeah, he/she looks pretty stupid.

The one odd thing being different from 1970s Alabama?  Well...we'd usually visit the  newcomers...offering up a cake....maybe giving some advice on local churches, and give the typical warnings about tornados, snakes and NCAA football.  We didn't attempt to hand the newcomer a $10,000 VISA card, or hand them $25,000 in hotel or meal coverage.   

Whoever is running in November as the Democratic contender (it won't be Joe)....has a serious problem in explaining newcomer status to the public.