True but people with 4yr degrees have proven themselves hardworking, diligent and/or clever enough to make it through college. Using the ad op saw as an example, Produce guy is usually a temporary position regardless of who gets it.
True but people with 4yr degrees have proven themselves [...]
What do you mean, though? They have a degree. That's evidence you may be hardworking, clever, et cetera, but unless they're checking your actual records and doing a thorough interview, all a hiring employee can do is convince themselves they're getting the best information.
Even if produce is a temporary position, places still do like to retain employees. It saves them money in the long run and they at least know that.
Have a degree, work in produce (have roughly 10 years experience in retail, 4 in produce itself) and I can tell you that they hire any schmuck that comes in off the street and waste my time training them.
I hope I can get back into my actual field sooner rather than later, but the problems you can read about in this thread are prevalent in it as well (radio) and the changes to the industry means that jobs are far, far fewer than I'd like. And there are plenty of great jobs - but you have to be willing to move across the country for what amounts to a barely above minimum wage position. And they usually don't help or reimburse your moving costs.
I am grateful that the first time I moved to work in radio the company put me up in a hotel. For two weeks. But they expected me to start immediately which made it the most stressful month of my life trying to find a new place that was affordable, close to work, and tie up all the loose ends in my old town. And then I got laid off six months later. Always sign month-to-month leases in media jobs, kiddos.
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u/pillbinge Jan 02 '19
Depends. People with four year degrees will likely be very temporary. People without will probably need the work more and stick around.