Occupy wallstreet demands

[Anymouse]

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Well, not all types of work are really worth something. Like you can't rise anywhere if you work in starbucks, or as a cashier in a grocery store, or you can't rise up in the system as a construction worker, electrician or anything that does not require higher education in a university.
You also can't rise anywhere with a degree in a branch like modern cinema, which is a department that I've only recently heard of, even if you can find work(unless you decide to stay in the university).

However, you can earn a good salary from jobs that result from high-tier education, like law, engineering, natural sciences(like, you know, physics, chemistry, biology and the like, but some will stay in the university, and research departments), economics and the like.

Truly, if you can't find work, it's not just due to the fault of the government, which is certainly at fault in America, however it also depends on the person itself.
I know that university education is not free in America, and it certainly isn't cheap either for good universities(whereas the good universities in Turkey are all free), however, I must say that this also serves a different purpose.
We in Turkey have a large army of unemployed, and well educated men.
We produce more educated people than the system requires, and therefore, many of our engineers, scientists, historians and etc. go to western countries to seek employment.
We are also short on intermediate staff, like technicians, whereas the system in America allows for the training of an amount of educated men to satisfy the need, and takes the rest from abroad, while the rest of the population are composed of the "working class". However, America, being the capitalist country it is, allows for much outsourcing of jobs, since the working class in manufacturing is declining, due to cheap labor in other countries.
I'm not saying that the people there are lazy bums. I'm sure they'd do well with a job that they're given according to their level of skill and education(on which I need some data to determine what exactly could be done to help them). All I'm saying is, that creating jobs is something that requires more money be spent by someone, and no one is willing to spend that money unless it's tied to something more lucrative.

And I want to add that this is not something that is done so lightly. Like, people cannot simply create jobs out of nowhere. The private sector cannot, unless they're expanding, and in the case they're not, they won't. And even in that case it may not be permanent, since competition can always drive you out of business in that area, and force more people to become unemployed. I'm sorry, but those are the hard facts of life.

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While it is true that "all work isn't worth something," it does not follow that all worthwhile work (or even all good-paying work) requires a university degree.

I only graduated from high school. I never attended college.

After spending seventeen years in the Navy as an aviation electronics technician, I became disabled in a way that prohibits me from working in any aspect of electronics ever again (I developed epilepsy).

I then chose an entirely different field: publishing, more specifically, editing. I applied for work with a Romance publisher as a copyeditor. I only applied with one publishing house. Their advert stated that a degree in literature or English and experience in publishing was required. I had neither.

Several scores of people applied for the position; I was the only one (according to the senior editor at the time) who had the chutzpah to apply without any of the requisite diplomas or experience. They hired me. In our down market. I did not use my Veteran's preference on my application (which wouldn't have mattered anyway since the company was then located in Australia).

Since that time, I have risen to the position of a content editor (the highest editorial position which is not an administrator in the company). On top of that I am the only male in the company.

Editing Romances has zero in common with military electronic warfare and cryptographic equipment maintenance, except that I was able to write my resume to show how it actually does.

My Navy job required writing reports, conducting engineering investigations, writing maintenance and instruction manuals, composing correspondence with military and commercial officials, conducting training, evaluating personnel performance, time management, scheduling tasks, &c ad nauseum. All of these skills are directly applicable to the job of editing.

None of them required me to go to college.

The requirement of publishing experience was filled by reading everything I could lay my hands on about how a publishing house and editing works, and being able to demonstrate that in my interview (over the telephone to Australia, mind you).

My wife and I just moved to another state. Because we don't do things like borrow money for things we can't afford and live on credit, we have money to buy the things we want with cash. We just bought our house.

We are not particularly wealthy: one does not make a lot on enlisted disability pay from the Veterans Administration. We get what we want by identifying what we want, then setting aside or saving real money for it. That way we aren't giving our lives' earnings to a loan shark (Visa, Master Card, &c.)

James