Job market realities

Monty at Ace of Spades writes about the realities of the job market in America.

The reality is that we've chosen the European social model of social welfare at the cost of high structural unemployment at just the time when this model is failing all over the world: in Japan, in Europe, and here. At exactly the time young people need to be entrepreneurs, jacks-of-all-trades, and self-starters, we're turning them into under-educated, over-entitled, helpless, unskilled wards of the State.

I've often said that "follow your dreams" is, in most cases, bad career advice for young people (or anyone, really). Find a job that you can make a decent living at and that you don't hate. You don't have to love it -- if it was fun they wouldn't call it work. If you are one of the lucky ones who can find a paying job doing something you love, then be happy, because most people don't have that option.

Ultimately, the core truth is that the world doesn't owe anyone a living. We all have to go out there and find one. It may not be the one we want, but that too is just reality asserting itself.

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