In fact, I was just looking the other day for some sort of an easy, non career type job to consider to make some extra money. Maybe a receptionist type job or office assistant. I have a political science degree and experience in the insurance industry. I couldn’t find anything like that that I was qualified for. The receptionist at my doctors office has to have medical field related degree, to answer phones and schedule appointments. I think these jobs are being marketed to attract desperate unemployed college grads so they can pay them like they’re unskilled laborers, and in some cases promote them with a raise that is smaller than what they should have gotten had they been hired into a position at a salary commensurate with their education in the first place-- that’s what my company was doing. Get hired in as an entry level at another, better company-- start at 40-45k. Get hired in at sub-entry level here, get hired in at 30k or less, and get a 5k raise when you get “promoted” to entry level and still end up behind. You’re young and naive so it will probably take you a while, probably a year, to get the guts to leave. That’s the way it usually worked out.
Looking through job postings, I am seeing a lot of companies here that I think are doing the same thing. It hurts them some because then they have high turnover, but there are so many desperate unemployed college grads that they don’t care, they can fill the position again in no time. The people making the decisions arent the ones that have to train new people over and over again because people keep moving on.
These people getting hired into these jobs are not going to get on top of their loans enough to buy a house any time soon.