On 2/20/2013 3:34 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
> It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk (
> http://www.cnbc.com/id/100474974 )
>
> The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum
> requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job.
>
> Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in
> Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth in the college-educated
> population. Like other employers across the country, the firm hires only
> people with a bachelor's degree, even for jobs that do not require
> college-level skills.
>
> This prerequisite applies to everyone, including the receptionist,
> paralegals, administrative assistants and file clerks. Even the office
> "runner" — the in-house courier who, for $10 an hour, ferries documents
> back and forth between the courthouse and the office — went to a four-year
> school.
> "College graduates are just more career-oriented," said Adam Slipakoff, the
> firm's managing partner. "Going to college means they are making a real
> commitment to their futures. They're not just looking for a paycheck."
>
>
>
> I am going to have to call bullshit on Adam.  The only reason they can pay
> a office runner with a BA such a low fee is because the office runner can't
> find anything else.  Let's see:  A 19 year old high school graduate for 10
> dollars an hour or a 23 year old college graduate for 10 dollars an hour.
>   No brainer.
>
> Degree deflation and loan inflation.  Awesome combo.
>
> J
>
> -
>
> Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
> - Henry Kissinger
>
> Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
> go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton
>
> 

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