A job or Unemployed

[tristan22]

I have a question for some of you educated DJ's. Would you rather be unemployed or work some job making crap $ and being bossed around by someone with no education and management skills?

I can't tell you how many college graduates i run into working at malls, Best Buy, restaurants etc. It makes you wonder why these people spent 4-5 years in an academic institution bettering themselves, if the end result is working a job a high school drop out can do.

So what would you do; remain unemployed until you find a decent job or work a crap job you're overqualified for?

 

[Giovanni Casanova]

Um, some people have bills they need to pay. Given a choice between being unemployed and working a sh*tty job, I'd work a sh*tty job.

We can't all live off our mommies and daddies.

 

[diablo]

Originally posted by tristan22
So what would you do; remain unemployed until you find a decent job or work a crap job you're overqualified for?

Let's rephrase your options:

A. Have no money and no job.

B. Have money and the means to find a new job.


Hard choice.

 

[tristan22]

In my area, we have law school graduates delivering pizzas. I guess the times of the college graduate making good money right away are gone forever. I can remember a year before i graduated from college, 90% of my friends had multiple job offers around $50,000. Keep in mind this was in 2001.

Something for the younger DJ's to consider.

 

[drixsa]

The truth is many people think it would be cool to study philosophy or sociology but getting degrees in those subjects do make you qualified to work at best buy or the pizza shop.

So many people just get by in college that when they end up applying to law school they have only sub-par grades to show and get into bad law programs.

If you go to some average law school and you don't finish in the top 10 percent of your class then why would a firm be intersted in hiring you???

 

[tristan22]

A good friend of mine graduated law school with a C- average. He did great on the bar exam, had a successful law career, and is now a judge. So your statement isn't 100% correct!

Unless you want to practice law in New York at a top notch law firm, grades aren't that important. I am an average law student, yet i dominate in law school debates and mock trials against my fellow 4.0 classmates. Just because i'm not at the top of my class, doesn't mean i have nothing to offer

...........I know people with the degrees you listed making good money in sales! It's not about your grades, major, etc. It's all about who you know and who likes you!

 

[drixsa]

Originally posted by tristan22
A good friend of mine graduated law school with a C- average. He did great on the bar exam, had a successful law career, and is now a judge. So your statement isn't 100% correct!

Unless you want to practice law in New York at a top notch law firm, grades aren't that important. I am an average law student, yet i dominate in law school debates and mock trials against my fellow 4.0 classmates. Just because i'm not at the top of my class, doesn't mean i have nothing to offer

...........I know people with the degrees you listed making good money in sales! It's not about your grades, major, etc. It's all about who you know and who likes you!

You failed to acknowledge how much easier it is, if you have good grades (meaning bar scores as well). If you go to a good law school and do well, then you don't go looking for a job; they come looking for you.

Yes ofcourse there are people with philosophy or sociology majors that end up being successful but what they learned in school does not generally gear them to a good job because they aquire very few things with that sort of degree.

 

[Julian]

I dont think its a matter of no jobs.

I just think most of these college graduates are just people with no ambition anyway.

Why settle for the mediocre? People who are SERIOUS about making cash and being successful, DO IT. People who dont end up working at best buy.