Where Tomorrow's Jobs Will Be

• Report this Comment On February 03, 2012, at 5:35 PM, rikster720 wrote:

  60% (18 of 30) new jobs will not require a college degree yet the kings and queens of the higher education establishment, backed by the grand boobahs of government insist everyone needs to go to college to assure themselves a place in productive society.

  Yes, go to college and get a liberal arts education and when the pipe bursts in your house call another liberal arts major to come over and fix it for you.

  The grandmasters of higher education have done a tremendous disservice to people who have innate skills in how to fix and make things by denigrating community colleges and apprentice programs that would provide the finishing touches for worthwhile careers in the trades and other fields where common sense and aptitude for a specific function are soon going to be in demand.

• Report this Comment On February 03, 2012, at 5:38 PM, TMFHousel wrote:

  <<60% (18 of 30) new jobs will not require a college degree yet the kings and queens of the higher education establishment, backed by the grand boobahs of government insist everyone needs to go to college to assure themselves a place in productive society.>>

  Keep in mind: There may be a lot of jobs that don't require college degrees, but a lot of them pay wages that many would find unlivable.

• Report this Comment On February 03, 2012, at 6:58 PM, mark516119966 wrote:

  rikster,

  I just read an article about a school trying to abolish their vocation type classes for arts. If this guy is to be believed and I do, He owns a cabinet shop so he and other concerned people of the trades visited the school board to show their displeasure in as much as of what you wrote.

  I don't remember what district it was in but there is little hope, in my opinion, of success mainly because we are all being lead down a feminine road in this country.

• Report this Comment On February 03, 2012, at 7:05 PM, mark516119966 wrote:

  manufacturing -73!

  So the EPA, Federal regulation, taxes, and pretty much a hatred for any thing produced, prevailes in our future.

  Doesn't sound like much of a future.

  It would be interesting to find a similar prediction for the future in 1900.

• Report this Comment On February 03, 2012, at 7:21 PM, MichaelDSimms wrote:

  I think your crystal ball is broken.

  When has the Federal government ever constricted? It all depends on elections.

• Report this Comment On February 04, 2012, at 4:03 PM, jsmiley007 wrote:

  <Keep in mind: There may be a lot of jobs that don't require college degrees, but a lot of them pay wages that many would find unlivable. >

  Only if higher education and CEOs persuade the country to gut organized labor.

• Report this Comment On February 04, 2012, at 4:21 PM, TMFHousel wrote:

  <<When has the Federal government ever constricted>>

  Federal employees, 1985: 3.1 million

  Federal employees, 2011: 2.8 million

  http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/CEU9091000001.txt

• Report this Comment On February 04, 2012, at 4:23 PM, TMFHousel wrote:

  Looking at the data, a better question might be: When in the last 40 years has the federal government's employees ever expanded?

• Report this Comment On February 04, 2012, at 9:50 PM, kmarkt2 wrote:

  This prognosis, is a complete opposite of what is needed to right the disaster brought about from too many being in the Professional & Business category. The US will therefore remain a consumption intensive GDP on credit, with little to show for real wealth creation and redistribution. A deep service oriented economy of selling haircuts, insurance, healthcare, legal services to each other and the rest of daily needs, imported.

• Report this Comment On February 05, 2012, at 12:28 AM, kyleleeh wrote:

  @kmakt2

  A decrease in manufacturing jobs does not equal a decrease in manufacturing output...automation allows very few people to produce a lot of goods.

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