it just seems like it never gets any better. All I want is a job that pays me enough to live with a straight seven in the morning until 4:00 or 5:00 in the evening Monday through Friday schedule.
I just want an honest days pay for an honest day's work. I mean there are jobs out there like that, but when they advertise, my application is getting drowned out in the stack of like 200 other people who are competing for the same damn role. when the hell is the economy going to get better so I could finally get my damn foot in the door? how the hell am I supposed to buy a house when most jobs don't even pay enough to cover rent for a one bedroom apartment? when are we going to get those manufacturing jobs back and transition out of this stupid fucking low-wage service economy? I just keep seeing things getting more and more expensive and I really don't give a shit about all this political fucking theater when at the end of the day I'm still getting squeezed just as hard as I was under Joe Biden.
People with degrees are now more likely to be unemployed than those without.
For every job availabilty that requires a degree, there is fierce competition between those that have a degree. So that right there makes it very difficult to get a job.
But then when they apply to a job that DOESN'T require a degree, they're deemed overqualified and don't get those jobs either.
So yes, while the jobs that don't require a degree are often dead ends, they're still jobs, and there is a hell of a lot of them out there. And while most of them are most likely dead end jobs, many of them also promote from within. As an example, my roommate in college got a part time job at Walmart working the jewelry department to help her pay for college. She got her BS in some Biology field. But all through college she kept getting promotions and getting more hours to work. By the time she graduated college she was one of the assistant managers. She kept doing that job while applying for jobs related to her BS in Biology. All of the jobs she was able to get didn't pay nearly what she was earning at Walmart so she kept her Walmart job and kept looking for better biology jobs. Then she was promoted to manager. Then after a year or two of that she was offered a positon for assistant district manager. She just retired after working for Walmart for ~30 years. She was some sort of high up Executive Manager in the corporation. For all of those jobs above assistant manager of our local Walmart, she needed a degree. Didn't matter what it was in, just as long as it was a BS or equivelent (BA) or higher. Amd through all of it, they routinely promoted from within the company.