A millennial who’s been looking for a job for over 4 years says his degrees have offered little value: ‘I can’t get anything even at minimum wage’

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-looking-job-cant-get-hired-college-degress-entry-level-2024-7

by lurker_bee

20 comments

  1. Business Insider charges $150 for a yearly subscription??

    Fucking Hell…

  2. ” degree in multiplatform journalism”

    LOL found the issue.

  3. Maybe don’t waste the first years of adulthood getting useless degrees, dude?

  6. Millennial here with a BSCE and I’ve easily found jobs across three different states and I’m constantly getting recruitment offers.

    Could be the chosen degree?

  8. Classic case of forgetting the second half of the maxim: follow your dreams, if you were born rich.

  10. Should have weighed out what degree you should get based on passion along with job availability out of college and pay. Getting a unique degree in field that doesn’t have a lot of jobs in general especially ones that pay enough to afford rent and put food on the table.

    This guy is the same as the tons of art majors that graduate with the dream of becoming famous only to find out they are not the next Picasso and proceed to start working in the service industry or work dead end art gallery jobs.

  13. His degree is multiplatform journalism. What is this degree? I don’t think I’ve heard this being offered when I was at school.

  14. Colleges should be punished for offering useless degrees.

  15. How can an adult be absolutely unemployable? Even if not in his chosen field, how can he get ZERO jobs in four years??? I actually don’t believe this.

  16. Yes, a degree that provides little market value…well, it provides little market value.

    But costs just as much as a real degree.

  17. I didnt read the article bit if they headline is true. You move to Washington and I’ll give you a job right now. 24/hr. I’ll put you to work building fences and retaining walls 🤣🤣.

  18. Yeah, I can’t help but think this is about the way this guy is marketing himself, has shitty references and doesn’t realize it, is terrible at interviewing, or this story is actually bullshit.

    I work for a TV production company… *many* of the people there have journalism degrees, and they’re doing all kinds of random stuff: production assistants, producers, supervisors, archival department, media prep, etc. And also, people working in those roles have random other degrees (or even no degree! My company prefers at least an associates degree, but they’re happy to hire people at the bottom so they can train them the way they want to, and they can learn and work their way up).

    I mean, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in… get this… *Sculpture*, with minors in drawing and printmaking. I’m the Graphics Manager for the company, and I started as a set designer, then moved in to a wardrobe stylist role. Transferred to the graphics department when I was pregnant several years ago, and now I run it. Hell, one of my employees in the graphics department has a journalism degree. It often doesn’t matter what degree you have, you just have to figure out how to fit yourself into the role you’re looking at.

  19. The military has Public Affairs Mass Communications Specialists.

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