I’d like to present myself as someone taking a serious stance on this because to me, this is no joking matter. I will be using 1st and 3rd person because I feel it is necessary so that I can share my own personal experienced with the reader. I don’t thin I’ll be joking much in this paper, but if the opportunity arises, I may crack a joke. I will begin writing…
In today’s world, life is harder than it used to be. One has to be smarter, more experienced and more qualified than ever before. The expectations for our generations has changed so drastically in the last couple of years that it’s scary to think what the next generation will be expected to do
Over the course of history, children and parents were similar: boys did the same profession as their father, girls were homemakers, everyone had the same level of education, etc. The rate of change between generations was very gradual up until only about 50 years ago. In the 1950s, a college education was not necessary to a happy ending. My own grandfather never went to college and earned an income by being a butcher, policeman, councilman and also an agent at Allstate. At the time, all of those positions did not require a college education, with the exception of a few of those professions, college educations or some kind of higher education is needed for those professions today.
I really do like this topic for you paper, and I think many others will as well. People can definitely relate to it!
ReplyDeleteI also like this topic. I feel like many people have high expectations and require even more experience just to get a job. Although it is good to have an education, it is interesting to see how people (such as our grandparents) never went to college but lived good lives.
ReplyDeletethanks! :) i'm so glad people think my topic is somewhat relevant
ReplyDeleteI agree that a college degree is probably very highly overrated by most employers. I am not sure that our lives are harder than our parents or grandparents, though. I read somewhere yesterday that the average study time per week for those earning a bachelor's degree has dropped from 25 hours a week in the 1950's to 13 hours a week now. Probably the biggest difference, though, between our lives and the lives of our parents/grandparents in this regard is due to the cost of college- college tuition has exploded over the past years, far surpassing the rate of inflation.
ReplyDeleteyea the cost of tuition is crazy!! but i still feel like kids these days are almsot expected to go to college
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