Why do women run away?

[Cort Haus]

Well, speaking as a lazy, useless, retarded, Eurocommie failure who spent his twenties playing in rock bands and his thirties building some kind of career track-record and domestic / home / relationship stability, the idea of upgrading the educational paperwork now I'm in my forties isn't such a bad idea.

[Darius871]

Errr..... Most people aren't finished with their education before the late 20s...

Errr..... "most people" are doctors and/or Bluto Blutarsky?

[DriXnaK]

Being in your late 20s and finishing school isn't a bad thing unless you spent your entire time in school. Especially when you tack on 3 years of a horrible job market.

[Az]

I suppose the finer things in life include living in your parents' basement while pursuing useless degrees...

gahahahaha no, but pursuing a lifestyle of seeing the world and enjoying yourself, while learning valuable life lessons is. I took the Israeli "early career track", but I can fully see while some people would choose differently.

What Al is doing is a mistake, no doubt.

[Asher]

Well, speaking as a lazy, useless, retarded, Eurocommie failure who spent his twenties playing in rock bands and his thirties building some kind of career track-record and domestic / home / relationship stability, the idea of upgrading the educational paperwork now I'm in my forties isn't such a bad idea.

Rock bands, a worthy distraction

[Riesstiu IV]

Well, it's not like Al is alone. Youth unemployment in the US is ridiculously high. I graduated in 2007, just as the **** hit the fan, and I still don't have a full time job with health insurance. I'm in grad school, I substitute at schools for 30-35 hours a week, and I need surgery that I can't afford right now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_698948.html

Experienced professionals aren't the only workers struggling to find jobs.

In July, 51.1 percent of Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 years old were unemployed, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This marks the first time since 1948, when the government first started collecting this data, that less than half of all U.S. youth were employed in July.

Each year from April to July, the youth labor force grows sharply as high school and college students -- and recent graduates -- search for summer jobs. This summer, the youth labor force grew by 2.4 million to a total of 22.9 million in July, which is typically the summertime peak for youth employment, while the number of youths employed grew 1.8 million to 18.6 million, according to the BLS.

Though the increase in youth employment was slightly larger than last year's increase of 1.6 million, the percentage of the total youth population that was employed in July dropped 2.5 percentage points to 48.9 percent. This percentage has dropped by about 20 percentage points since its peak in July 1989. And, as the Wall Street Journal notes, rampant youth unemployment is not just an American problem.

Among major demographic groups in the U.S., the jobless rates for young men (20.5 percent),
young African-Americans (33.4 percent), and young Asian-Americans (21.6 percent) continued to rise from a year earlier. The unemployment rates for young women (17.5 percent), young whites (16.2 percent), and young Hispanics (22.1 percent) hardly changed, the BLS reports.

[Asher]

Al is not a youth. He's a man.

He's capable of having a 13 year old child.

Think about that.

Theoretically, he could be a ****ing grandfather.

[self biased]

goddamned kids are dragging our economy down! i've had a job since i was fourteen! GET OFF MY LAWN!

[N35t0r]

Errr..... Most people aren't finished with their education before the late 20s...

Seriously... I'm 25 and still only half-way to an engineering degree and I'm a disaster. Most of my friends (except for those studying medicine and specializing, and the lazy bums) have already finished, or are in the process of finishing their university education.

Except for those going for a Masters or PhD after getting a couple of years of experience, most have already finished their education...

[Riesstiu IV]

Not finishing University isn't a big deal. Hitler never finished art school and Stalin never dropped out of seminary school but look at the great things they accomplished.

[N35t0r]

No. Not going to university is not a big deal. Paying a ****load of money and wasting two-three years of your life, however...

In any case, by lazy bums I meant those who have spent the past 8 years attempting to get a degree in progressively 'easier' stuff.

[Nikolai]

WTFNorway

A bachelor's degree takes 3 years. A master an additional 2. Which means 5 years. And as everybody and his dog has a bachelor these days, you need a master to compete. High school is over the year you become 19. Most people take a year of working or people's high school, which means they are 20 when they begin their higher education. Which means you are finished at earliest at 24, most around 25. Few takes higher education that that. But it's still 25, and there are those who change the course of education a couple of times. Then you have those who after their master finds out they want to be f.ex. teacher. I myself is thinking of the possibility. If so, I need to take pedagogic seminar, which adds another year to the mix. So six years in that case.

[Nikolai]

Seriously... I'm 25 and still only half-way to an engineering degree and I'm a disaster. Most of my friends (except for those studying medicine and specializing, and the lazy bums) have already finished, or are in the process of finishing their university education.

Except for those going for a Masters or PhD after getting a couple of years of experience, most have already finished their education...

A lot of my friends are going to be teachers or nurses or similar. Those who have finished, did so around 24-25. That's pretty early compared to many.

[KrazyHorse]

A bachelor's degree takes 3 years. A master an additional 2. Which means 5 years. And as everybody and his dog has a bachelor these days, you need a master to compete. High school is over the year you become 19. Most people take a year of working or people's high school, which means they are 20 when they begin their higher education. Which means you are finished at earliest at 24, most around 25. Few takes higher education that that. But it's still 25, and there are those who change the course of education a couple of times. Then you have those who after their master finds out they want to be f.ex. teacher. I myself is thinking of the possibility. If so, I need to take pedagogic seminar, which adds another year to the mix. So six years in that case.

I doubt that "most" people in Norway do master's degrees. And 24-25 is not late 20s

[Jon Miller]

I doubt that "most" people in Norway do master's degrees. And 24-25 is not late 20s

Actually, Sweden (and probably Norway) didn't have such a thing as a Bacheors until very recently.

They just had something called a 'diploma' which was equivalent to a Masters.

So people who went to school, got Masters (if they completed). A lot of people are a bit relaxed about it, taking a break for a year or starting work and slowly finishing/etc.

In Sweden at least, they can keep trying to take the test to pass a class year after year until they succeed. I heard of people taking more than 10 tries (I think most succeed within 3, because than the professor can quit offering the test if they choose. But there is definitely an issue with this practice I feel.).

JM