What makes people make such decisions?

[GracchusBabeuf]

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[Invincible Summer]

What behaviour? Becoming a security guard or choosing "low-status" jobs when one has a good education?

For the latter, many times a foreign education is not recognized in Western countries, and many have to resort to getting whatever job comes along. From what I understand, quite a few taxi drivers where I live have university degrees from India and Sri Lanka, but they're not recognized.

[Glorious Union]

Even if I had a high education, my dream job has always been night shift security guard. So if I did go to Oxford, Yale, or something like that, I would still become a night shift security guard. Its just what I want to do.

Hm, and perhaps I could also be a memorable revolutionary...but that doesn't exactly qualify as a profession, does it? :D

[Invincible Summer]

Why leave a University Professor job and migrate to a foreign country to work as a security guard?


Yeah like I said, foreign education is often not recognized when people migrate. I'm sure he didn't intend to be a security guard when he came here.


Capitalism doesn't value people's skills unless it is beneficial to their market.

[Invincible Summer]

This is sort of on a tangent, but Glorious Union reminded me of something.

You know how lots of people who are pretty well off tend to have time/ability to do stuff that they find fulfilling (eg. volunteer more, take up an extra part-time job or something... at least I know some people like this)?

Well, that just goes to show that when one's needs are taken care of, one can choose to do things which are much more desirable and intrinsically rewarding - just another case for Communism

[Psy]

Even workers educated domestically find themselves being under employed due to a scarcity of skilled job openings in their field.

[Charles Xavier]

Why not get a trained accounting to work like a trained accountant for a book keeper's wage?

But some people I do not have sympathy for, people who had their education paid by for free by their own country than instead of using their skills in their homeland to at least pay back to the community, they emigrate, thinking they are going to get paid 100k+ a year in Canada/ US/ Europe.

The brain drain of the developing world is sickening.