University Degrees: The New High School Diploma
Spend Money To Get Minimum Wage
So nearing five full years after I graduated from a Canadian University I am no closer to gaining any employment in my field of study. In the fall of 2008 I was young and just started University in my home province. I had dreams of becoming a great engineer and starting a business or rising up in the ranks of a famous company. The summer of 2013 was the year I graduated and started looking for jobs in my field of study which was chemical engineering. However most starting jobs required 3-5 years of experience!! YES, I said starting jobs!!! The companies behind these jobs obviously didn't want recent graduates or wanted to hire foreign graduates and pay less. So I decided after a couple interviews to teach abroad for awhile.
From September 2013 to May 2017 I lived abroad in Korea and worked off my student loan and came back to Canada with a family. In contrast my university friends ended up snagging great minimum wage jobs and are burdened by student loans still in 2018. Once I returned to Canada I realized that the job situation was even worse for college graduates. I have since taken up a minimum wage job and am relying on my savings to support my family. At my minimum wage job numerous people have degrees and are being paid the bare minimum.
The point of the story is that in 2018 having a university degree basically is nothing more than a glorified high school diploma. When I was interviewing for jobs I had been asked how my degree would relate to the work I was looking for. Yes! Minimum wage jobs asked how a university degree would progress their company. Numerous people I know with university degrees have applied to jobs that pay one or two dollars above minimum wage and have basically been asked to use all their skills to obtain a job that in prior years wouldn't even of attracted university applicants.
No Degree No Job
The other problem that is apparent now is that university/college degrees have basically taken over the market. Why would a company hire a high school graduate full time when a university graduate is applying for the same job and has proved themselves through studying and testing. The small amount of companies that ire high school graduates are drying up with globalization and outsourcing of materials to foreign countries and computers. It is cheaper for a country to hire a university graduate opposed to a high school graduate as the university graduate will have a better chance to better the company's image.Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, etc are being eaten up by entry level jobs that required nothing twenty years ago.
With all this turmoil begs the question: Will university become mandatory in the future and take the role of high school?
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