I read your article These Degrees May Have Gone Cold in Sunday's Trib and, while I have never responded to a contributor before, I feel compelled to now. As a recent graduate of Seton Hill University's history program, I find your article to be unfounded, malevolent, and utterly useless. I have worked in technical recruiting and outside sales since graduating. The two years since I have graduated have been the hardest of my life. Finding a good job with a reputable company is indeed hard with most degrees due to a shortage of experience and networking skills and a saturated market. In a bad economy, there is a shortage of jobs and a surplus of candidates; hence, in many of the jobs for which I have interviewed-and there have been many
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What did you major in?
Now, we are older and wiser and, in many cases, will lead lives of anger, resentment, and indentured servitude at our "restaurant" jobs. The last thing we need is for our adults griping and reinforcing the fact that our degrees in cartography or history are useless, cold, or stale, because, after all, it was the preceding generations that inculcated us with the importance of formal higher education. Many people are calling us the new "Lost Generation", which I resent, because we didn't lose ourselves-we were following you.
Millions of educated waiters and waitresses and baristas fight feelings of worthlessness each time we walk into Applebee’s as an employee, not guest, or every time we add cream to your coffee, and then we open the newspaper to your column, which, ironically, offers nothing to anyone. While you may believe in your literary mordancy and wit and write with hubris, your writing, rather than edifying or inspiring your readers, exasperates a sorrow carried by an entire generation. I’d hope you and the rest of our preceding generations would help to guide us through our “hard times” and devise possible solutions and provide support rather than reinforcing our huge mistake in our young lives. Your article provided nothing valuable to anyone other than you, who got paid to write it, and the other members of your generation, who watch us writhe in debt like a kid watches animals in a zoo. Please, when you decide to,
What did you major in?
Now, we are older and wiser and, in many cases, will lead lives of anger, resentment, and indentured servitude at our "restaurant" jobs. The last thing we need is for our adults griping and reinforcing the fact that our degrees in cartography or history are useless, cold, or stale, because, after all, it was the preceding generations that inculcated us with the importance of formal higher education. Many people are calling us the new "Lost Generation", which I resent, because we didn't lose ourselves-we were following you.
Millions of educated waiters and waitresses and baristas fight feelings of worthlessness each time we walk into Applebee’s as an employee, not guest, or every time we add cream to your coffee, and then we open the newspaper to your column, which, ironically, offers nothing to anyone. While you may believe in your literary mordancy and wit and write with hubris, your writing, rather than edifying or inspiring your readers, exasperates a sorrow carried by an entire generation. I’d hope you and the rest of our preceding generations would help to guide us through our “hard times” and devise possible solutions and provide support rather than reinforcing our huge mistake in our young lives. Your article provided nothing valuable to anyone other than you, who got paid to write it, and the other members of your generation, who watch us writhe in debt like a kid watches animals in a zoo. Please, when you decide to,