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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Too bad if you're an arts student though. Might as well just be happy you had four years of partying and accept that you've basically not progressed beyond a high school diploma in terms of job prospects.
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If someone is an Arts student and they thought'd they'd be coming out of Uni with a 60-70k job there's probably more wrong than just a generational sense of entitlement... they obviously weren't looking around or listening much. I came out with History & Poli Sci degrees and I knew I was going to be lucky to get a job, let alone anything that paid over 40k to start.
Lots of Eng, Business majors, Law, etc. students (especially those who do well) can make 50-60k to start... or more.
As far as I'm concerned this is the same debate that will happen every generation. The world changes, people change with it. One day when we're Cowperson's age (hopefully not for a few decades yet) we'll be looking at all the 'young'uns' talking about how things and people are 'different' now than they used to be, as though there's some static social arrangement that can be identified and monitored throughout the ages, or that there's some sort of value in attempting to keep this arrangment arrested and 'the same'. You think people born in 1900 were looking at people born in 1950 and saying 'yep, chip off the ol' block there'... hell, if you were born in 1900 then a kid having a car when he's 16 in 1950 probably blows your freaking mind!
This type of generational shift is inevitble, it'll happen every time a bunch of people get old and a bunch of new people are born.