is the market controlling human development

[Dr Mindbender]

By which I'm referring specifically to graduates, and the demand of particular professionals. Its no longer a case of selecting a specific vocation, and hope all works out well. If a particular discipline isnt wanted by the market, then we are discouraged and often co-erced away from it by career advisors, and personnell within the welfare state and put on track towards an alienating career which is completely indifferent to our personalities but in demand of big business. It seems although we are allowing the neo-liberal agenda to become its own dictorial entity which will ultimately decide what specific disciplines are worked upon and which wont.
Er hope that makes sense?

[Dr Mindbender]

no contributors? :blink:

Oh well.

[Lynx]

It appears more practical and less risky to choose a career that will be in high demand when you graduate.

[davidbrooke]

Career advisors are tools anyway...though they won't be very good career advisers if they sent you down the career path that lacked real prospects, they wouldn't be very good career advisors.

For the question, the market does and will continue the career prospects of many graduates. If they haven't been indoctorinated with all this crap throughout courses, they'll soon find an unrewarding career. Personally i would like to be a writer but i've been told it's far too stupid to plan heavily on this and should look for something more "practical". Fuck them, though it would be really difficult and i do know it would be easier to just go and get a degree in business studies or something like that.

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10, 2007 06:59 pm
Career advisors are tools anyway...though they won't be very good career advisers if they sent you down the career path that lacked real prospects, they wouldn't be very good career advisors.

For the question, the market does and will continue the career prospects of many graduates. If they haven't been indoctorinated with all this crap throughout courses, they'll soon find an unrewarding career. Personally i would like to be a writer but i've been told it's far too stupid to plan heavily on this and should look for something more "practical". Fuck them, though it would be really difficult and i do know it would be easier to just go and get a degree in business studies or something like that.
well thats precisely my point - the market has made a way of making only specific routes 'rewarding' or 'prospectful'. All of these seem to revolve around the acquistion of wealth and preserving the status quo.

My fear is, that other disciplines that arent 'prospectful' will be lost to obscurity and at what cost? If Isaac Newton had discontinued his endeavours in physics because they werent affluential, many great scientific and mathematic texts would have been lost.

[Lynx]

The market sends out 'signals' about what is in demand and what isn't. Not everybody listens to these signals.
The emphasis on going to college did hurt enrollment in vocational schools; now a career in the 'trades' is seen as rewarding or has better prospects because of earlier trends.