This year’s job market has been bleak, to say the least. Layoffs hit the highest level in 14 years; job openings are barely budging; and quits figures are plummeting. It’s no wonder people feel stuck and discouraged—especially as many candidates have been on the job hunt for a year.
But some mid-career professionals are working with the cards they’ve been dealt by going back to school. Many are turning to data analytics, cybersecurity, AI-focused courses, health care, MBA programs, or trade certifications for an “immediate impact on their careers,” Metaintro CEO Lacey Kaelani told Fortune.
But while grad school can certainly offer the opportunity to level-up your career once you’ve completed a program, it comes with financial and personal sacrifices, like time. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, one year of grad school, on average, costs about $43,000 in tuition. That’s nearly 70% of the average salary in the U.S.
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Zoomers and under are completely fucked.
… everyone who isn’t a a deca-millionaire, is fucked.
Entry level positions require 3 years experience, in every field now.
Entirely seriously: If you want a future beyond debt-slavery, you’ll have to figure out how to undertake an actual revolution.
Step 1:
Delete Tiktok and all corporate social media.
Step 2:
Organize with like minded individuals via other means, establish mutual aid and support groups.
Step 3:
???
Step 4:
Abolish Profit.
surprisingly sane words
I think that is because they know they can’t actually hire everyone, so instead of making older people unemployed and risking them raising their voice about it, they’re making the younger people unemployed because they figure they can get away with it more easily.
younger people never know how it was like 20 years in the past. so they don’t have anything to compare and they can’t say “well, suddenly i’m out of a job” because they never had one in the first place, so it’s easier to sell the changing reality to them.
This is the bigger picture:
… we are not all going to survive the great unraveling, even if we had benevolent geniuses in charge.
With corpos and fascists in charge?
Gonna be even worse.
Oh yes i know the W3 model and the Club Of Rome (i think they made that diagram?) in the context of the paper Limits to Growth.
The thing is, it’s outdated. That study was done when renewable energy was inconceivable. Things have changed since then. The study was literally done in i think 1970 (first version) and then updates every couple years (significant update was done in 2004).
In fact, until very recently, people couldn’t imagine that renewable energy would actually become a big thing. Solar energy somehow became the cheapest source of (technically useful) energy (!) in human history (says the IEA), and they’re gonna know it since they’re literally an oil and gas analysis organization so if even they admit it, it’s not “green propaganda” but solid facts.
This changes the picture dramatically, because under capitalism companies continue to seek the cheapest power possible, and that’s simply solar energy today. This leads to an exponential increase in solar power production ever since 2020.
And that changes the picture. The end of the fucking world is off, we’re all saved, we have enough energy to sustain our way of life and there’s no “heavy culling” when the fossil fuels run out.
Entire generation: [looks at step 1] “… nah…”
I got a job at Amazon driving a van lmao. They are hiring literally anyone with a license and not on hard drugs. They didn’t test for alcohol or weed.
just out of curiosity: have you considered applying in agriculture?
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I applied to like 60 places and the only places I got interviews at were McDonald’s and Waffle House at first. Considering what I’ve heard, I got lucky compared to a lot of people, good luck.