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nicam
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 Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: Make room for superior "losers" who can't make it |
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Had to giggle when I got to the part where the law school grad talks about South Korea being his only option.
http://www.slate.com/id/2215830/ |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Shit man, $200,000 in debt and no job is nothing to giggle at.  |
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GwangjuParents
Joined: 31 Oct 2008
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I thought the connected article was great:
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/01/2009013001c.htm
I'm surprised he limited it to graduate level humanities stuff.
An undergrad humanities degree is, generally, quite useless too in terms of making you employable (unless you discard those organization that want just any degree).
As stated in the article, "education" is a big business, and there are a lot of people who are directly or indirectly financially dependent on you signing up for classes. |
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moosehead
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it's an interesting article.
however, why the absurd title for this thread topic? even if you put "loser" in quotes, why use it at all?
so someone sees few options and chooses to come overseas - to K - would it have been better to sit home whining about no job, no foreseeable options? or to get off one's bum and go where there is not just opportunity but an experience to do some good as well, not to mention the intl aspect of it?
I just don't get where posters are coming from using the term "loser." someone's priorities are screwed up in a major way.
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John_ESL_White
Joined: 12 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
it's an interesting article.
however, why the absurd title for this thread topic? even if you put "loser" in quotes, why use it at all?
so someone sees few options and chooses to come overseas - to K - would it have been better to sit home whining about no job, no foreseeable options? or to get off one's bum and go where there is not just opportunity but an experience to do some good as well, not to mention the intl aspect of it?
I just don't get where posters are coming from using the term "loser." someone's priorities are screwed up in a major way.
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especially when said posters are in Korea doing the same thing.... doesn't make sense. pot-kettle-black...etc |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| *sigh* It's called sarcasm. That's why he/she put "losers" in quotes. You people are native speakers, right? |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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I see 2 pages, but no mention of South Korea. I did a search for the word "south"
Anyway, these people majored in the wrong areas (example, "I haven't found a position that requests familiarity with obscure art historical literature from the 18th century written in Serbo-Croatian"), "loser" fits. |
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Luciddreamer
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| South Korea being his only option |
I see 2 pages, but no mention of South Korea. I did a search for the word "south"
Anyway, these people majored in the wrong areas (example, "I haven't found a position that requests familiarity with obscure art historical literature from the 18th century written in Serbo-Croatian"), "loser" fits. |
You illiterate?
"I also heard from law school graduates with $200,000 in debt who wonder what they were thinking as firms downsize and implode. "It is a nightmare," writes Benjamin, who got laid off a few weeks ago without a day's notice. He has moved back in with his parents�until he leaves to go teach English in Korea. "The pay is decent and the expenses are covered. I highly recommend other college graduates who are in my position look into this. But, my God, I have to leave the United States of America. What in the world happened?" (Autor would tell him to relax: "As for the law degree being underwater: Lawyers may get their shoes wet during the recession, but high school grads can't even see the surface they are so far down.") |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| moosehead wrote: |
| I just don't get where posters are coming from using the term "loser." someone's priorities are screwed up in a major way. |
"Loser."  |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Draz wrote: |
| Shit man, $200,000 in debt and no job is nothing to giggle at. |
It is to me... but I'm not not 200 grand in debt and trying to enter the shark-infested 'real world' of bottom-feeding, ambulance-chasing political 'wannabies'. My uni's law school only accepted one in twenty applicants.. but nobody said they were actually 'bright'. |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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