By: Jill MacKenzie
I recently came accross an article on people in their mid twenties who are graduating with college degrees, but aren't finding jobs that require them. Only seventy-one percent of people recent graduates in the educational field are employed in jobs that require a degree. Due to the high demand in popular jobs, more people are working at gas stations, liquor + food stores, and limo + taxi services. This makes it harder for the less-educated to get jobs.
Employment statistics of college graduates under the age of twenty-five:
Not working: 22.4%
Working in jobs that do not require a college degree: 22%
Working in jobs that require a college degree: 55.6%
I think that the reason why common jobs are in such high employment demand is because of the fact that I don't think all students know exactly what they want to do right after college. Society and parents pressure their children to jump right into debt and a major that they might not even end up using. I think that it is more smart to take six to twelve months off to discover yourself and experiment in different jobs so see what you like and what you don't. A year seems like a long time, but it's better than wasting four years at college setting yourself up for a career that you end up not even liking. Not to mention the thousands of dollars in debt that comes from something you weren't exactly interested in in the first place.
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