bid_time wrote:
So what's your point? Don't get an education?
My points pretty simple. Get the skills you need to change with the times or sweep floors. You get to choose.
You 're the one that brought up engineers. I simple showed that there is a continuing demand for engineers. No job is immune from layoffs, but some have a better chance of finding another job (like engineers), while other don't (like sweeping floors).
My point is that "Get an education" is not the panacea that a lot of people seem to think it is. Yes, it sure helps and not having an education is a real minus. And some of those people sweeping floors couldn't get an engineering degree if they wanted to. What do we do about them? We need to face the fact that not everyone, in fact probably not most people, have what it takes to get the necessary higher degrees. What do we do with them? "Too bad, so sad"?
Good short order cooks don't necessarily have the skills to be a chef or sous chef. But they do fill a niche. Maybe we need to keep some of those niches.
