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Originally Posted by Culverin
If you worked as contractor, then you took a narrow field of work, it is a risky business.
If you decided to take out loans for a finance degree, then you took not only a risk for a field but also for a loan.
You balanced both long term gain and a fulfilling profession against the risk of a narrow field or a loan.
Suck it up.
If you wanted something safe, then you don't take something rewarding.
You work your way up to become a manager of Mcdonalads.
It's not just who isn't a hard worker and whiner.
It's who made bad decisions in life and ends up paying for it either.
I have made some pretty bad decisions, but you don't blame management that you can't learn to work the system to your advantage.
I keep hearing about cases where people take risks then raging at the system when they got burned. They had lots of lower risk options on the table but explain it away as "beneath them".
If you are hard working enough and can talk somebody into holding onto your job, you'd be the best damn janitor ever.
Don't blame it on the system.
The only thing I blame on the system is that the big banks got bailed out.
And there isn't enough transparency with large government contract.
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Contracting isn't a narrow field, it's a hugely diverse field, the skills anyone in construction learns are transferable to almost any specific field in the industry. There is also almost always a significant number of construction jobs available.
A finance or business degree is the same, it's not something someone pursues for intellectual fulfilment, it's about the long term financial security; that's why I used that hypothetical example. Someone pursues a degree in history or art is taking a risk in exchange for the potential of a fulfilling profession, I have no sympathy for someone with a degree in literature being unemployed.
The majority of people don't choose jobs low level jobs, like work as a janitor or manager at mcdonalds, because they want to earn more than twenty dollars an hour at some point in their lives. It would be tough to find a manager at the store front level of mcdonalds not living pay cheque to pay cheque, even with a financially conservative life style.
The reality is that people with practical degrees have been out of work for years, because of the unnecessary risks taken by big business in an attempt to maximise profits. It's the systems fault for the lack of regulation put in place to prevent that, the lack of regulation directly correlating with the power of lobbyists in America. American politicians had the world economy holding their breath for a week over an insignificant sum of money for fuck sakes, that's the level of disconnect the people at the top have.