Doublespeak?

[Rhizomorph13]

I don't think the article is advocating to only learning enough for the job you have. The author is pointing out the situation where people failed to obtain a "good job" even though they did the "right thing" i.e. going to college. I work in a board development lab for Intel and I can tell you from experience how hard it is to find good people. We went through a period where we increased production many 100s of percents so we had to hire 150 people and I swear it was like someone shook a putz tree over our lab! To get even 10 good people we had to bring on so many temps and many of them had degrees in unrelated fields. Some even had proper electrical engineering degrees. Anyway, my point is that a degree, or knowledge acquisition in any way really, does not correlate with beneficial outcomes in the workforce UNLESS, you can use that knowledge within the company to effect positive change. For example I have learned a great deal about Excel through using that program at my job for the last 14 years so I bring some heat when operating that program. I do not have a degree and am one of the leaders on the floor due to my vast experience and ability to obtain and apply knowledge during day to day operations. In my time I have met far too many graduates who are entitled and that is the wrong attitude to have no matter what you know.