We live in the tunnel at the end of the light. If you are 35 or younger - and quite often, older - the advice of the old economy does not apply to you. You live in the post-employment economy, where corporations have decided not to pay people. Profits are still high. The money is still there. But not for you. You will work without a raise, benefits, or job security. Survival is now a laudable aspiration. Higher education is merely a symptom of a broader economic disease. As universities boast record endowments and spend millions on lavish infrastructure, administrators justify poor treatment of faculty by noting that said faculty: 1) choose to work for poverty wages, and 2) picked specialisations that give them limited market value - ignoring, of course, that almost no one is valued in this market, save those who are reaping its greatest profits.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:36:16 +0000
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