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September 3, 2010
The Kids Are NOT Alright
Even if you go into the ‘learned professions’
you are going to have to be entrepreneurial and flexible. Technology is going to rock your world and economic changes and upheavals are going to change the rules on you over and over. This is not how the knowledge professions (law, medicine, teaching, the civil service) used to work. In the old days, you got the right degree from the right school, got a job with a good employer and rose steadily through the ranks through a long and increasingly distinguished career. At the end you had a safe pension.Almost certainly, this is not going to happen to you. -- Back To School - Walter Russell Mead
Posted by Vanderleun at September 3, 2010 1:46 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Mr. Meade lost me when he wrote, "if you come out of college with a good Liberal education...." as his closing statement. Almost bi-polar in his personality.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at September 4, 2010 1:51 AM
The operative word there is "if." If you don't understand that "if," you're lost to more than Mr. Meade.
Posted by: rascalfair at September 4, 2010 5:20 AM
The operative word is "if", and "if" is left up to each individual for interpretation.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at September 5, 2010 1:46 AM