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This was me:
With normal job obtaining methods such as, skill, connections, timing, luck, bachelor’s degree not producing the satisfying results of money, stability, growth potential, I decided to apply to graduate school.
When I was in full tilt application mode, I read a New York Times Magazine article, “What Is It About 20-Somethings” that was virtually written about me. Although incredibly reassured by the article on many levels, i.e. applying to grad school, suffering through unpaid internships, constant moving, unfettered relationships, I felt that it did not place enough emphasis on the economy and the fact that if I could find a job, I would not be dealing with the majority of these issues.
With the idea of grad school equaling job, equaling money, I found the Career Coach at The New York Times published, “A Recession May Be a Time to Go Back to School.” (Noted that it does not say “Good Time” or “Bad Time”.)
Getting really formulaic, Peterson’s – Your Comprehensive Guide to College Information lays out the 20 reasons that you should go to grad school and the 15 reasons that you should not. Among them: 1. Greater earning power, 2. Advance your career, 10. Graduating with large debt and 11. No guarantee of higher salary.
Feeling that journalism graduate school far increased my chances at option 1 and 2 over paying triple for a degree in media studies or art politics, I ultimately enrolled at CUNY Graduate School for Journalism. Seems that Peterson’s forgot a link to Daily Beast’s, 20 Most Useless Degrees, journalism being number 1 or US News, Grad Degree Jobs that pay more than 100K, dentist, doctor, lawyer, with journalist nowhere to be found. Need I even hyper-link that many believe that journalism is close to post mortem, except Jeff Jarvis and the CUNY J-School, of course.
If only I had gone to vocational school out of high school.
Original Caption: “Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school.”, 04/1942
(Image from: National Archives and Records Administration via Flickr Creative Commons)
Revised Headline:
Get a Job: Graduate School vs. Vocational School