> A) You believe you are smarter than 60% of people with degrees and are accurately capable of predicting supply/demand.
You don't have to be exactly 3 SD out to be smarter than 60% of a group of people, so I likely am. On top of that, these are people who've never had a real job and are choosing a major at age 18 or so.
But that's not the point. The point is many of these people just assumed the job would be there when they graduated without doing any research at all. They didn't even look.
There's two really terrible common pieces of advice parents give to their children: 1) "Just be yourself" when dating and 2) "When choosing a major do what you love".
> B) You believe an external factor is at fault.
Well, yes, an external factor is partially at fault. That external factor is the higher education establishment, which is corrupt as hell. They lobby the government for ever increasing amounts of loans for students and then award themselves $400k salaries. Don't let anyone tell you there's such a thing as a nonprofit institution.
The idea that 60% of people couldn't find work in their field of study isn't surprising to me at all.
> A) You believe you are smarter than 60% of people with degrees and are accurately capable of predicting supply/demand.
You don't have to be exactly 3 SD out to be smarter than 60% of a group of people, so I likely am. On top of that, these are people who've never had a real job and are choosing a major at age 18 or so.
But that's not the point. The point is many of these people just assumed the job would be there when they graduated without doing any research at all. They didn't even look.
There's two really terrible common pieces of advice parents give to their children: 1) "Just be yourself" when dating and 2) "When choosing a major do what you love".
> B) You believe an external factor is at fault.
Well, yes, an external factor is partially at fault. That external factor is the higher education establishment, which is corrupt as hell. They lobby the government for ever increasing amounts of loans for students and then award themselves $400k salaries. Don't let anyone tell you there's such a thing as a nonprofit institution.
The idea that 60% of people couldn't find work in their field of study isn't surprising to me at all.