Need for More High School Dropouts

victoriaheidi
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:21:12 +0000

I can believe that the # of cashiers needed is growing…sadly, I applied to 21 summer jobs this past season (things like retail) and only got one call for an interview (and when the interview was scheduled during something important and inflexible, I couldn’t get another time for an interview. That was the anticlimactic ending to my summer job hunt!). I’ve been to several of the places where I didn’t get jobs, and everyone there is a “real adult,” not a college student like I am.

If there’s one thing that bugs me, it’s the negative outlook for non-STEM majors. I have never been particularly good at anything beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication and division–and I worked HARD to try to become a decent math student. It just wasn’t in my skills. But I know that I’m really good at so many other things, so the seemingly-bleak job outlook for the rest of us always gets to me.