Why Americans Won T Do Dirty Jobs

In today’s very competitive job market, a college degree no longer holds the same value as it did many years ago. Graduate students are having a very difficult time finding jobs once they graduate. Due to this fact, many recent graduates have not yet fostered the proper skills to adequately survive the incoming struggles of the “real world”. According to Julie Hanus, author of “When Did our Jobs Turn into a Joke?” more and more jobs are being lost to other countries (Hanus 16). Due to this, a recent college graduate needs to understand the importance of an important trait such as self-control. With self-control, the graduate student would be able to control himself or herself from accepting low wage positions. This is why self-control would be the most important and helpful trait for graduate student to learn in order to help them be …show more content…
Elizabeth Dwoskin, author of “Why Americans Won’t do Dirty Jobs”, explains that there is no shortage of jobs in the agricultural department, but the demanding works is one of the many reasons why Americans won’t seek work in this type of manual labor. Another major reason on why most Americans won’t work in agricultural jobs is the low wages that the workers are paid (Dwoskin 8). Although, the jobs are very important to the American economy, a college graduate should not be one of the employees who works in in this very harsh work environment. Dwoskin also observes that these employees “work until 6 p.m., earning $2 for each 25-pound basket they fill” (Dwoskin 8). A college graduate should strive for more pay and have the self-control to wait for opportunities to arise. With not having self-control, a person would be desperate to have any job available, deterring them from what actually bring them joy. By having the self-control to understand and not take the job, they will have a happier life and overall better experience on the