#6
Monday, 4 October 2010
By Kyra Kyles
Rigth Degree, Wrong Job
Whitehead is just one of the number of Chicagoans who believe college degrees have been rendered almost useless in the current economy. Several locals said they have completely changed, or at least significanlty altered, their career directions due to the grim realities of the tight job market. Chicagoans in their early t mid-20s expressed even less optimism about the return-on-investment rate of their degrees. Job statistics seem to support that readjustment in expectations. Approximately 50 percent of college educated workers 25 and younger who began working this year took jobs that didn't require a bachelor's degree, including waiting tables and selling retail, according to the director of the Center or Labor Market Studies at Northwestern University in Boston, the L.A. Times reported.
In my opinion, college education is not a waiste even if you don't get a job in your field of studies.
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