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What was meant to be a career? Factory jobs? That's all in Mexico and China now.
Only careers in 2017: truck driving, PT fast food, sex work (lol) or some really specialized skill that like 10 people in the world have. Truck driving will soon be automated, as will fast food work, sex work is sex work and those really good paying jobs that require skills.
Requires college.
Which, the quality of education has fallen, the cost of going to college has went through the roof.
And people still wonder why we need a minimum wage INCREASE.
Luck is where opportunity meets XYZ. No. Luck is everything. You mention opportunity.
What opportunity?
Our jobs went to China and Mexico, wages went through the ground because ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will do work that a LEGAL AMERICAN could do, for far less. So they get the job, not legal taxpaying Americans.
Baloney. I call Bull. The number of part time jobs in the economy has held relatively constant over the years. Here's the facts from the Bureau of labor Statistics;
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/share-of-part-time-workers-at-lowest-since-november-2008.htm
And as far as those mythical skilled jobs that no one has the skills for; we call them plumbers and HVAC technicians. The trades definitely require more skills than they used to, but it's not rocket science. These are good paying full time jobs that too few young people consider anymore. Here's Mike Rowe's take on it; and there are 5.6 million job openings in the trades.
5.6 Million Reasons to Stop Ignoring the Skills Gap – Mike Rowe
I wish people would stop with all the negativity. Young people need to be told they have a future, because they do if they work toward it. They don't need to hear that they're finished before they start. One of the ideas I preached to my black students, in the ghetto school district where I taught, is that it isn't a "white man's world". Their world can be whatever they make it. So don't give white people too much credit, they aren't that smart...
And I agree with Mike Rowe; don't wait on that dream job; just get out there and try things. You never know where it will take you.