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Originally Posted by blankall
I wonder if this is just backlog from babyboomers not retiring? And maybe things will just start to open up again in the next 5-10 years, when they eventually do retire.
Whatever, the cause the lack of positions and the downplaying of marks has created an absolute mess for kids these days. There's no room for a normal middle class child who gets straight As.
My daughter is six months old. I guess I had better start building her resume? What insanity.
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Yes, get her volunteering when she can walk! Make sure she is the leader of her daycare class!
But no I don't think it will improve, it'll get worse. There are far more post-secondary school graduates than there ever were boomers. There aren't really many boomers in the work force anymore. The youngest baby bomber was born is 1965 and is 57 today. And by 57, you'd think they'd be in higher positions than entry level which is where the real bottleneck is.
You look at boomers, mostly men worked at the beginning of their careers, women might have gotten in later on. And out of the men the white collar blue collar split was much closer to 50/50 than it is now. Would be interesting to poll CPers to see if their parents were white collar or blue collar.
But now, everyone's trying to get a post-secondary education, which is great, but it will saturate the one market over the other.