Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 02, 2015

You think there are jobs with a high school diploma?

Bilan, good point!

Frazz turned his college degree into a rewarding career as a high school janitor…

Nothing is free, someone is going to pay! Usually taxpayers being used as ATMS!

The job market isn’t much better for college graduates (especially for ones who get degrees in English Lit or Feminist Studies, but that’s a different rant) than for high school graduates, but the HS graduates have the advantage of not having a ridiculously high debt dragging them down. As a tax payer, I’d much rather my taxes went into helping kids get an education than shooting missiles at the enemy du jour (usually brown) to the toon of a couple billion dollars a day.

I had jobs coming out my ears until I had a degree – now I’m overqualified for those jobs and they’re scared I’ll leave, but there are too many people competing for the degree requiring jobs.

And for Frazz’s career, there is no conceivable benefit to getting a degree. I still think going to university, even for a couple years, benefits a lot of people – but for the education part, well, the MOOC’s are available for some things. If you’re working 3 jobs you might not get the social part. So I think its a long long way from a foregone conclusion.

And I still know plenty of people without degrees who have good jobs, all the way from 50yos down to 18yos. In research science, well, no. (Not that those are always good jobs per se.) But in other things… being smart gets you places anyway, and having a degree plus being not as smart doesn’t actually give you very nice jobs unless you’re lucky or well connected.

Civilized nations recognize that an educated population is good for society. Here there are too many people who don’t believe in “good for society”, but only “good for me, right now”.

In my day, we went to university to actually learn things; we didn’t give a lot of thought to “jobs”, those were something trade school students worried over…so we studied esoteric subjects because they interested us, because we wanted to nurture our souls…imagine our surprise to discover that actual knowledge does have value, and that we space cadets are now in high demand for many types of jobs…

Is that a John Hiatt t-shirt Frazz is wearing?

comicsssfan: That is a risk you must consider, whatever the major. It is just that as they gain equality, it will no longer require “gaydar” to detect them.

Yep.