warning: conjecture ahead
By now you’ve surely noticed the horrible trend of salary-cutting and job-booting. Unless we find a magical way to pull ourselves out of the ever-growing US debt, I think we’re all screwed. I mean, think about it. Maybe the THEMs will be okay doing manual labor and working at the local McDonalds (for some reason, we never seem to have a shortage of fast food restaurants). On the opposite end of the spectrum, people like my sister won’t have so much to worry about either. But what about the rest of us? The mediocre, the down-trodden, the 3.5 GPAs?
With the increase in the amount of incredible students, it becomes ever-harder to get into prestigious colleges. Without being in a prestigious college, it’s more difficult to get work experience. This rings especially true if you’re either in a very common field (e.g: graphic design and programming in the silicon valley–or anywhere, really) or an uncommon one (job title: Airedale Terrier Specialist Veterinarian)– why pick you, when there’s someone better? And without work experience, you can’t get a decent job.
But worse yet, employees are becoming increasingly selective. People are becoming increasingly smarter and productive. The bell curve is shifting east. What are we to do? How can we remedy this situation? Are we just running on a hamster wheel?
In short– we’re all doomed.
Okay.
So I’m doomed.
