Things to be thankful for…

… all of which apply to me, through no merit of my own.

Hat tip to quickmeme.

The generation gap

All too true!   When I attended high school in the late 1940s and early 1950s, we all took for granted that anybody who was willing to work hard could get a job of some kind, anybody with a high school diploma could get a good job, and anybody with a college degree could get an excellent job.

Now the vast majority of Americans have high school diplomas, and more Americans than ever before have college degrees, but this isn’t enough to guarantee them good jobs, or even jobs at all.  All it has done is to raise the bar.

Click on Master’s is the new Bachelor’s to read about the next step in degree inflation.

Source of the graphic: quickmeme.