FarCenter (9,717 posts)
Even A PhD Couldn't Kept This Man Off Food Stamps Or Out Of The Unemployment Line
Tony Yang is getting beaten to a pulp. He's not wanted by mobsters nor is he another Cybercrime bully. The former University of California doctoral student (c/o '09) just says that's what it feels like each quarter when he wraps up his teaching gigs and goes home without a permanent job offer.
"It can be very tough on the pysche," he told the Chronicle of Higher Education. "The darkest moment had to be when I finished my dissertation. I turned it in and there (was) no job ... So when I graduated, the first thing I had to do was file for unemployment."
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After the recession took hold in 2007, the rate of PhD holders who've filed for government assistance more than tripled to 33,655 by 2010, according to data collected by Austin Nichols, a senior researcher with the Chronicle's Urban Institute.
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Like Yang, who holds a PhD in History from the University of California, many graduates are delaying marriage until they can afford the walk down the aisle.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-mans-phd-hasnt-kept-him-off-food-stamps-or-the-unemployment-line-2012-5
longship (10,963 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
13. Sorry, Bud. You just didn't get born into the right family.
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Don't ya get it!? Edumacation doesn't mean squat. You can have 1,000 PhDs, but if you are not born to an entitled family, or if you're not of the correct religion, you just don't matter.
Go screw yourself.
on edit: By the way, whether you get a job or not, we'll be needing those student loan payments on time! Or maybe your parents will get a friendly visit from our friend, Guido. Heh, heh, heh!
A PhD in the Humanities is a CONSUMPTION GOOD unless you are an absolute rock star in your field. (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?action=post;board=10.0)
Odd that I see no posts promising to offer the guy a job. I wonder why that is? Could it be that he HAS NO JOB SKILLS?
Only a liberal would get a degree in the humanities and feel entitled to a living.
Doctor Unemployed, PhD should have gone to truck driving school.
And yet I'd be willing to bet there are School Districts and Junior Colleges that would snap him up in a heartbeat.
My guess is that he thinks positions like that are beneath him and he's holding out till he gets "the call" from Berkley or Harvard.
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And yet I'd be willing to bet there are School Districts and Junior Colleges that would snap him up in a heartbeat.
My guess is that he thinks positions like that are beneath him and he's holding out till he gets "the call" from Berkley or Harvard.
:whatever:
So when I graduated, the first thing I had to do was file for unemployment."
I noticed that too, Gina. I thought you had to pay into it for some period of time (even small).
I noticed that too, Gina. I thought you had to pay into it for some period of time (even small).
Boortz was talking about this yesterday afternoon. That article in Chronicle of Higher Ed seems to be all the buzz. They also featured a woman who had a PhD in medieval history. She was on foodstamps, working only 20 hours a week, doing grunt work at the community college. She was fat, had DWS hair, and tattoos.
Most of the commenters at CHE did not get it. They thought all these TA's ought to be paid handsomely, just because. Any dissenters got raked over the coals. The Smartest People on the Planet apparently cannot think outside of their boxes.
One of the commenters at the Chronicle said, "I love history, I'm a history buff. I read about it voraciously in my leisure-reading time. I don't expect to earn my living with that." They all piled on him, saying, "just going to a Renaissance Faire does not make you a history buff." These people are idiots.
One of the commenters at the Chronicle said, "I love history, I'm a history buff. I read about it voraciously in my leisure-reading time. I don't expect to earn my living with that." They all piled on him, saying, "just going to a Renaissance Faire does not make you a history buff." These people are idiots.
longship (10,963 posts)
13. Sorry, Bud. You just didn't get born into the right family.
Don't ya get it!? Edumacation doesn't mean squat. You can have 1,000 PhDs, but if you are not born to an entitled family, or if you're not of the correct religion, you just don't matter.
Go screw yourself.
She was fat, had DWS hair, and tattoos.
Uh, no, dickhead, that is not true. I manage to have a nice home, more than one vehicle, raise more than 3 children, and live comfortably without a college degree or some oligarchical pedigree. I managed to do that having come from nothing in Central Appalachia to building a nice life. I did it without grants or worthless degrees or leaning on the family fortune. I am pursuing a degree in engineering because I choose to do so, not because I think that money and job offers will fall into my lap while I'm sitting in the graduates section of a ceremony.
Go screw yourself, DUmmie, and quit your whining for your failings.
Uh, no, dickhead, that is not true. I manage to have a nice home, more than one vehicle, raise more than 3 children, and live comfortably without a college degree or some oligarchical pedigree. I managed to do that having come from nothing in Central Appalachia to building a nice life. I did it without grants or worthless degrees or leaning on the family fortune. I am pursuing a degree in engineering because I choose to do so, not because I think that money and job offers will fall into my lap while I'm sitting in the graduates section of a ceremony.
Go screw yourself, DUmmie, and quit your whining for your failings.
Dumbass #1 has a Ph.D. in Medieval History
Dumbass #2 has a Masters in Film Studies
Think I could, you know, pretty please, keep my own f'n money rather than dole it out to idiots like this to pursue their dreams that have not one damn thing to do with me? You minor in what you want to do. You major in what pays the f'n bills. You don't do what "you" want to do and then turn around and expect everyone to subsidize your STUPID behavior and piss-poor choices, DUmbasses.
Pretty much, wasp. Amazing how guys like us "only joined the military because we couldn't make it anywhere else" (according to the DUmmies) and yet we're the ones who tend to do far better than average?
Pretty much, wasp. Amazing how guys like us "only joined the military because we couldn't make it anywhere else" (according to the DUmmies) and yet we're the ones who tend to do far better than average?
I don't like the fact that there are still far too many vets who don't get into the job market right out of the military (vet unemployment is 12 percent) but a lot of that is our guys not understanding HOW to market themselves as much as HR/recruiting laziness...(what's an 11B? Infantry? How does that help our company?)
That's because it's harder to join and stay in the military than stand in line waiting for a handout. You learn how to work with other people and in a team, and that in most ways you are not as special and wonderful as the coddlers of the world claim you are.
I agree and would say that it is probably more a product of ignorance on how to sell oneself than anything else. Then again, I picked a rate that I knew would directly translate to something on the outside so I can't say for sure.
That being said, networking is an incredible tool and one of the main reasons I got out after my "good deal" of shore duty (recruiting.)
It would be interesting to hear that Medieval History PhD discuss how the Black Death can be traced back to the Bush Family.
I'm sure the Bushes are in there someplace.
The guy says though his degree carriesprestigeplague, you can't eatprestigeplague.
You'd think that would've occurred to him when he was charting his path.
Well I wonder why? Let us look at the best bets for jobs there dummie.
best bet for jobs (http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-2854-Job-Info-and-Trends-Best-bets-for-jobs-in-2012/)
Now let us look at the highest paying occupations:
funny, no history or womyns major degrees here (http://www.careerinfonet.org/oview5.asp?Level=Overall)
Now let's look at 50 best jobs in America. Notice number 2. College prof. Doesn't say anything about the demand though. Good work if you can get it. Is there demand for it? Don't look like it.
Don't see no history majors here either (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2006/05/01/8375749/index.htm)
Sorry you spent however many years studying for a degree that is worthless there dummie. Maybe you should have learned a skill like plumbing.