Life Here & There 
No Comments Extended Impact and Educational Consequences
If you have read enough of my blog, you’ll know that my hubby is the do-all dude on the home front. I’ll probably touch on that some other time. As for me, I have two jobs that mesh well with our situation. One of the jobs is in the pharmaceutical field and involves receiving calls as a help desk person (work at home virtually). The other job has me working in a college. The combination provides me with solid information and insight.
For example, I can say with all certainty that the 4-yr universities in the USA are having more problems with their budgets as people just can’t afford the cost in money or time to go to them for retraining into a new field. The 2-yr colleges are swamped with students. People are desperate to get an income stream going. Things are really touchy in the economy and many are on the brink of financial collapse. So they make their educational choices with the end goal of employment and meeting the bills in mind.
On the education side, the Nursing programs at colleges and technical colleges are massively flooded with students. In 1-2 years, the supply of nursing graduates will outstrip the demand for them making this flooded field clogged up and graduates looking how to repay their loans. This is nothing new to the USA career system as it historically “declares” one field being hot which then gets flooded, changes happen to the field and you get a lot of well-trained unemployed people.
Sadly, the motivation for people entering these fields often has little to do with their skill sets, attitudes, or abilities but primarily they are driven by the wage commanded by the profession or other perks. We have all experienced these kinds of individuals in the service focused jobs. They are not there to provide a service but to put in the time to get the paycheck. These are usually the individuals that give a profession a bad name as they aren’t approaching the service profession in the right mind-set such as actually caring more for the patients than the paycheck.
But these are becoming desperate times for many people and they are willing to go into fields they probably shouldn’t just so they can eventually pay the bills.
Add in a large number of desperate people getting training for a field about to be financially gutted creates a horrible problem for many people. What happens when a flooded field of candidates gets done with school to find their field gutted? How do they repay their student loans and make ends meet?
All of that will only serve to feed back into the destructive loop of more foreclosures, less funds available for products and services, and the further breakdown of the commercial sector and employment sector.
The USA is on the economic ropes and getting hit faster than Manny Pacquiao can punch.
I’m just waiting for someone to champion starting a pineapple plantation in Wisconsin claiming how many jobs it’ll create. With how things are going, they’ll use the logic of since pine trees and apple trees grow in Wisconsin then pineapple will too. Then you’ll get 20-35% of the people saying it is a great idea and ridiculing anyone who points out the obvious.
Here is another obvious point. Canada and most of the European countries that have the version of health care in place that is being forcefully promoted in Washington DC have another thing in common. We foot most of their defense budget so they have resources the USA doesn’t have and it still isn’t working for them.
Thanks for reading!
Live well and make it a great day,
Anah
