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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been reported on for years, its just finally hitting DC. You just didn't notice when it didn't affect your neighborhood as much. [/quote]

We didn't notice it because of all the Fed jobs around here, IMO. It's been pretty well documented in other parts of the state and country.

When people reported their college graduate kids only being able to get jobs as baristas or restaurant servers, the responses were "well, that's what you get with a liberal arts degree". When OPs clarified that their kids were computer science or engineering majors, the responses flipped to "oversaturated degrees - they should have picked something better". Any excuse except for acknowledging the fact that the US' push for higher education as the only successful path for all has created a problem where we have too many college degreed workers and too few jobs that utilize those degrees.

When I graduated in 2000 from a HS in this area, all we were told through all 4 years of HS by our parents, teachers, and counselors was that college = THE ONLY path to success. Vocational learning = for the losers who didn't have good grades or opportunities - the stoners, the bad kids, the kids from the bad neighborhoods, the short bus kids. This was drilled into our heads over and over. It's how we have such a big student loan crisis right now. My guidance counselor told me "don't worry about the loans because when you graduate with that degree, you'll be making so much money that they'll be paid off in a year or two" when I expressed concern about going straight to a 4-year school instead of NVCC for 2 years. 21 years later and I'm still paying off those loans...[/quote]

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