Here's a good one for college students -- a news writer telling us again that we're going to school for nothing! We could all use some extra pessimism throughout college, right?
I got this interesting article in my NY Times daily email update the other day. It basically reinforces that the job world is changing and that jobs are going to computers. The one thing about this article that wasn't so bad was that it suggested that we need to think ahead and try to focus on different types of careers for our futures. However, it suggests leaving education out of the plan -- interesting.
Computers are easily stealing all the jobs that are easy to automate like in factories and your local Stop and Shop checkout. The article suggests that certain jobs will never be automated. Anyone wanna quit school and be a truck driver? That's what the newspapers think we should do.
This is a bad sign.
A lot of students seem down about the worth of their degrees right now. My literature professor actually spends five to ten minutes a class just giving us cheerful news about the economy! She's sweet. We all need a little bit of hope sometimes.
I think had our country focused on education a lot more, even tho jobs are being replaced by computers, if more americans had a higher education, we would still have more jobs. better jobs. however america spends most of its budget on defense, where other countries spend alot of their budgets on education.
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