[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

[Lynn Ronkainen]

news blurb from NYTimes this morning ; U.S. Economy Added 280,000 Jobs in 
May; Unemployment Rate at 5.5% Employers added 280,000 jobs in May, the 
Labor Department reported on Friday, blunting worries about the American 
economy’s momentum after a stretch of lackluster growth earlier this year.
The official unemployment rate ticked up to 5.5 percent.


I still think that Washington is using mathmagic to report information like 
this....
and the Engineer and the burger flippin' 17 year old are on a level playing 
field in this new statistical economy of job reporting...

Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 8:31 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

>> It's a vanity thing for too many.  Go to college whether it agrees with 
>> you
>> or not. And that is nuts.
>
> Not in a world that's flat.
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> And are you familiar with the kinds of things a modern electrician has to 
> deal with? All manner of IC Circuits for example. The job has changed 
> during the past 20 years or so, at least in the United States.
>
> Plumbers? In much of the U.S. one might need an advance degree just to 
> decipher modern plumbing codes <g>  It's not just fixing a leak in a pipe 
> anymore..
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> There aren't enough of these jobs going forward that will provide much of 
> a life (or income) for those who refuse to advance their education. And if 
> there are too many who eschew education the basic laws of economics  will 
> drive down wages and make them all members of the "Working Poor."
>
> I, for one, am not in favor of that. I am not in favor of the idea that 
> "the poor will always be with you" as a command, not something to try to 
> overcome as much as possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
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