[quote=CA renter][quote=spdrun]Maybe, but part of the implication is that there aren’t enough non-survival jobs, so people get pushed to survival jobs that pay decently.[/quote]

Agreed, and that’s why the article is so important — we really need to reevaluate the desire to push everyone into college, no matter what. .[/quote]

While Vegas may be an outlier, the main point the author was making was highlighting the disdain that has arisen in our society for blue collar work.

Most of SoCal has a huge no traditional income market There are a lot of people making a lot of money doing neither white collar nor blue collar work and it isn’t all illicit

Overall I think the authors quote of the colleague terming the service job survival job how disconnected the disdain much of the educational system has for the real world. How likely is it that the one school the author is at has more grad students in her field than the state of Nevada is going to hire in the next decade? That is the reality I see when I see classrooms Kids chasing the dream with a marginally better chance of realizing it than the kids on the basketball court chasing theirs

Yes STEm, I know, 90% of the kids aren’t doing STEM. The kids aren’t really in the schools getting educated. They checking of prerequisites to go apply for jobs.

Universities used to teach you to think. Now they teach you to follow the rules in the box. It gets better. We taking many of the service industries and now starting to wrap requirements around them to have BA degrees.