This year’s job market has been bleak, to say the least. Layoffs hit the highest level in 14 years; job openings are barely budging; and quits figures are plummeting. It’s no wonder people feel stuck and discouraged—especially as many candidates have been on the job hunt for a year.
But some mid-career professionals are working with the cards they’ve been dealt by going back to school. Many are turning to data analytics, cybersecurity, AI-focused courses, health care, MBA programs, or trade certifications for an “immediate impact on their careers,” Metaintro CEO Lacey Kaelani told Fortune.
But while grad school can certainly offer the opportunity to level-up your career once you’ve completed a program, it comes with financial and personal sacrifices, like time. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, one year of grad school, on average, costs about $43,000 in tuition. That’s nearly 70% of the average salary in the U.S.
Apprenticeships or career tech certificates can help.
I’m a journey level worker and I’m back in school. Construction has been recession level for at least a couple years in my area and it’s getting worse fast. They’re purging anyone female or brown from the unions in my area because that’s DEI. We’ve had incidents of union officers threatening to lynch black apprentices and hanging nooses, I’ve seen female apprentices complain about SA and getting blackballed. It’s back to the good ol boy system full force in construction right now. I’d say 90% of these high paid white nepo baby construction guys are rabid Trump supporters. It’s full FBI friends, brothers and in-laws only and your tax dollars pay for these apprenticeships and a lot of projects these guys pull six figures on so telling people to go into an apprenticeship is just a racist dog whistle unless they’re related to someone
I mean we’re seeing the same thing in Canada only it’s every racial/religious enclave doing it. Indians are redrawing the caste lines, Jews are pushing out gentiles, Chinese are holding condo board meetings in Mandarin and then using them to force out other people…
This is what happens when people let themselves be divided; they’re going to carve up the pittance left to us while leaving the rest of the pie to the sickeningly wealthy.
Who’s doing all the work? As a homeowner, I’ve definitely seen stereotypes in action for work I’ve had done. Replacing my roof was typical. All white guys selling me on how wonderful it’ll be. But it was a crew of Hispanics that came out to do the work, and they hustled like no ones business. I know who I’d trust to get a job done.
Actually similar deal for my electrician. I went through several companies of delays and excessive fees for truck rolls, upselling, etc. but I found this local guy who happens to be Hispanic, who is very responsive, cheaper, and does an outstanding job
I know who to trust to give me a good deal, excellent service, great response, and they’re not the white glad-handlers. I understand good work is not a racial characteristic but perhaps the extra hurdles to the business make it so. I would never claim the white guts can’t do the work but if you’re firing in a racial manner, how the heck do you have enough people to get the job done? And yes I’m a white guy who has always valued competent hard work in myself and others