Is there anything worth doing at a university/college, anymore? For the precarity generation, even the professional degree programs are worthless.

The BAs (Bachelor of Arts) never amounted to much, anyway. A few of them led to this and that, but most offered no clear path to a known destination. Graduate studies (and the distant prospect of professorial tenure) is available to only a tiny few.

B.Comm? Bachelor of Commerce leads to management, finance and accounting. If you have the connections, some of these can be extremely lucrative, of course. But the impression I have gotten is that such companies do not part with their money easily.

Journalism is dead, and has been dying for decades.

Medicine is great, of course. But, frankly, it is not for everyone. Not everyone can be a doctor. And, in the long term, you’ll need a financially healthy society in order to pay for healthcare!

Engineering? Mechanical, civil, chemical etc have long produced far too many graduates than there has been demand. Most employment is in computing, but that has been gutted by offshoring and outsourcing.They use new grads for a couple of years, then replace them with the next wide-eyed batch. (Are you listening, India?) Companies want employees who don’t need training, but who have not clued-in enough to know what’s really going on. In other words, they want a virgin who can fellate, and goes all the way!

Lawyers? Corporations (who are the only ones who can pay) need only so many lawyers. You can become an ambulance-chaser, but, if the accused is jobless, you can’t milk them.

Then there are the unpaid ‘internships’ littering everywhere.

And then there is the debt scam. Universities and their professors/staff are benefitting; and then there are the outright scammers eg private ‘colleges’ whose business model is analogous to mortgage banksters’.

It has long seemed like the only ‘careers’ worth putting effort into are skilled tardes. Anything which involves repairs, and which has to be done locally. Jeremy Rifkin argued that an end to conventional work is approching. It seems that, for now, our lot is to work part-time, while doing free things on the Internet!