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Category Archives: careers
Teach Kids 3 Ways to Earn a Living Before 18
America’s Blue Collar Crisis Transportation companies are short 33,000 truckers compared to before the pandemic. Nationwide there’s a 55 percent shortage of plumbers available for work, and electricians are also in seriously short supply. Meanwhile, construction firms can’t find enough qualified workers to complete … Continue reading
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If This is the Best they Can Do . . .
… And it probably is. Joe Rogan’s congenial interview with presidential candidate Andrew Yang brought more attention to the former entrepreneur than any advertising his campaign may have bought. He is clearly at or near the top of the field … Continue reading
Between 25% and 50% of Colleges Will Fail in Next 20 Years
Michael Horn is an expert on education who predicts that 25% of US colleges will fail within the next 20 years. Personally I think the number will be closer to 50%, if you include mergers as a failure of individual … Continue reading
6 Years to Get a 4 Year Degree in Leisure Studies
College Is a Joke A Brigham Young University economist was wondering why 6-year graduation rates at 4-year universities had been rising recently. He discovered in a roundabout way that colleges have been “dumbing down” their departments and their degrees. If … Continue reading
Women Not Dying on the Job Quickly Enough? A Question of Gender Parity
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that, in 2015, men dominated the 20 most dangerous occupations in the United States. Logging is the most dangerous job in the U.S., followed by fishing. Mining is the 20th most dangerous profession. More … Continue reading
Human Slavery and the Coming Automation Age
Global Automation Will be a Brave New World Only for Some Over the next two decades, there is a chance that employing more artificial intelligence and robots will incidentally create twice as many jobs as they take away. But there … Continue reading
Shocking Rules for Preventing Personal Poverty
According to the British Cohort Study, following just a few rules in adolescence and early adulthood will reduce your likelihood of being impoverished. Finish High School, or the equivalent Avoid Teen Pregnancy Avoid Long Term Unemployment in Your Early Twenties … Continue reading
Income for High School Dropouts vs. Various College Degrees
Income and Unemployment by College Degree The table above compares the top 5 US college degrees with the bottom 5. For a closer look at the analysis done by BankRate to reach their conclusions, see here. … actuarial science was … Continue reading
What Does Full Employment Look Like?
We can get a good picture of full employment by looking at Midland, Texas, where the unemployment rate hovers near 2%. Finding workers to do ordinary jobs as teachers, restaurant cooks, bus drivers, city workers, prison guards, etc. is getting … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Economics, Energy, Shale Oil & Gas Revolution
Tagged Shale Boom
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Mike and Jordan: Unlikeliest Revolutionaries
Mike Rowe and Jordan Peterson are two of the unlikeliest revolutionaries that you can meet. Both born into relatively humble circumstances, each followed diverse and unlikely paths to become North American icons-in-revolt against the modern tyranny of incompetence — especially … Continue reading
The Importance of Versatility
A Dangerous Child will master at least three means of financial independence by the age of 18 years. And that is just the beginning. Dangerous Children continue to learn and master new skills and competencies their entire lives, in order … Continue reading
Solid Competents vs. Worthless Snowflakes: Working Out the Future
If you are young and not Dangerous, your dreams and passions are almost certainly pathetic shite. If you are not Dangerous, you have probably never been exposed to the full-spectrum world out there. So, here’s a word of advice: Don’t … Continue reading
Learning to Transcend Failure is a Necessary Part of Growing Up
The following article is adapted from a posting published earlier on The Dangerous Child blog How Can Children Master Financial Skills by Age 18? Humans learn best by trying — by going out on the limb for something. Early tries … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Competence, Dangerous Child, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Groupthink, Philosophy, University
Tagged Education, risk
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How Much Does an Entrepreneur Make in the US?
noun, plural entrepreneurs [ahn-truh-pruh-nurz, -noo rz; French ahn-truh-pruh-nœr] 1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. 2. an employer of productive labor; contractor. __ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/entrepreneur Note that entrepreneurs assume the … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Creativity, Discovery, Education, Human Slavery, Sensitive and Critical Periods of Development
Tagged business, career, risk, self discipline
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What is the Best Return on Investment from US Colleges and Universities?
In the past, college was a ticket to a brighter future. Now, it’s a ticket to immense debt and an uncertain financial future for far too many students. Student loan debt in the U.S. has now topped $1 trillion. According … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Childhood Development, Dangerous Child, Dangerous Child FAQs, Education
Tagged Dangerous Child, Education
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Universities are Doomed, College is Revolting
… most schools just don’t do a very good job anymore. They are four year summer camps for kids who got trophies for showing up. Now, they get degrees for showing up. Gone are most course requirements and core curricula, … Continue reading
What Would a Rational Society Do With Its “Elite Overproduction?”
“elite overproduction” … refers to a growing class of elites who are competing for a limited number of elite positions, such as political appointments. __Klint Finley in Wired Magazine Elite overproduction also refers to tenured professorships at elite universities, “thinktank” … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Competence, Demographics, Europe, Future, Government, Russia
Tagged competence
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A Coming Disruption in Education
From “The Futurist” blog comes a provocative essay on the future of education entitled “The Education Disruption: 2015“. (via Xenosystems) It is worth reading the entire essay, although I have excerpted some of the parts that I feel especially important. … Continue reading
Higher Education Unplugged
Where is higher education heading? A credential, like any common currency, is valued only because of the collective agreement to assign it value. The value of a college degree has been in question since the Great Recession, but there have … Continue reading
Buying Credentials: A Poor Substitute for Education
Despite $1 trillion in college loan debt, there is no sign that US college students are being well educated. They study less, lack quantitative reasoning skills, are poor at critical thinking, and attempt to balance binge drinking and laying about … Continue reading
Don’t Raise Your Children to be Wage Slaves
There are a number of disadvantages to working at a job, that is, working for a company or for someone else. Job security is never perfect, and in the days of Obama, uncertainty is an unwelcome guest in a growing … Continue reading
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