11.19.2010

There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s


What You Can Do With a PhD in Theology

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... the growing disconnect between labor market realities and the propaganda of higher-education apologists is causing more and more people to graduate and take menial jobs or no job at all. This is even true at the doctoral and professional level—there are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees.

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Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000 parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree.

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Comment: More power to them. Advice: go into this with eyes wide open


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2 comments:

  1. Original source of the article: Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?

    A worthwhile read.

    Selected quote: All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree.

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  2. Another quote from the above

    I have long been a proponent of Charles Murray’s thesis that an increasing number of people attending college do not have the cognitive abilities or other attributes usually necessary for success at higher levels of learning. As more and more try to attend colleges, either college degrees will be watered down (something already happening I suspect) or drop-out rates will rise.

    The relentless claims of the Obama administration and others that having more college graduates is necessary for continued economic leadership is incompatible with this view.

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