3/4 of the baristas and bartenders I know are college educated

Great jobs for banging chicks, which let's face it is the most important thing in life

So what? They qualify for food stamps, have cheapo income tax, etc, etc. and probably take home as much income as I do making 23/hr after it's all said and done. Further, their job is easy, carefree (not taking any headaches home from the office) and relocatable if you wish to move.

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Peter Schiff interviews college students working on Bourbon Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpwAOHJsxg

This. And this is why the welfare system in America is screwed up. Not to mention all the dead beats who don't work at all.

no blcks in grmny wrote:

So what? They qualify for food stamps, have cheapo income tax, etc, etc. and probably take home as much income as I do making 23/hr after it's all said and done. Further, their job is easy, carefree (not taking any headaches home from the office) and relocatable if you wish to move.

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wascallywobert wrote:

This.

And this is why the welfare system in America is screwed up. Not to mention all the dead beats who don't work at all.

I don't now much about the american welfare system, but I bet it's not much compared to what we have here in Finland. Here it's much better to do nothing than to work for $11/h.

Nothing is worse than the grind of a regular office job

Don't bartenders make a lot of money?

$2 to $5 (non taxable) tip every minute... That's pretty good...

Working X job during school is evidence that the degree after graduation isn't useful? Oops, logic fail.

Thought the op said grad school, not college grads. Still, the current student section of your sample is useless.

Universities' primary purposes aren't to set up students for successful careers. Their main priority is making money and promoting higher education (helping people join intellectual minorities in areas that matter to them). Seriously, look on the About page for any major university. Careers are rarely mentioned.

I know lots of people in the same boat, but the smart ones aren't bitter about it. Some people actually like being educated in a way that isn't specifically profit-oriented. If you come out of your degree a better writer, researcher and critical thinker, you'll position yourself to be a successful person. Spending a few years working as a barista or bartender doesn't change this.

Johnny Thunders wrote:

Universities' primary purposes aren't to set up students for successful careers. Their main priority is making money and promoting higher education (helping people join intellectual minorities in areas that matter to them). Seriously, look on the About page for any major university. Careers are rarely mentioned.

That's because the government is there to pimp out universities and pretend like they're the only route to avoiding working McJobs for the rest of life.

Exactly. I kept myself alive by delivering pizza for a couple years and never thought that getting a degree had been pointless. I was glad to have the education and eventually moved onto other things.

no blcks in grmny wrote:

So what? They qualify for food stamps, have cheapo income tax, etc, etc. and probably take home as much income as I do making 23/hr after it's all said and done. Further, their job is easy, carefree (not taking any headaches home from the office) and relocatable if you wish to move.

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someone making 11/hr would not qualify for food stamps unless they had a wife and at least 1 child. even then they would only qualify for food for the baby.

The science and engineering grads are in the back cleaning and maintaining the coffee machines and toilets.

I wouldn't assume that a college grad is underemployed just because they're bar tending. Bar tending is a great way for a young professional to pick up some extra cash on the weekends. If you worked as a bar tender during undergrad and you have the time and energy, you can pick up a few hundred extra bucks per week working a couple of evening shifts at a decent bar.

You'll never go thru the emotional devastation of having your cubicle downsized to a desk in the bullpen if you are a waiter or bartender.

You must know an even number of them.