Men ages 23 to 30 are discovering that a bachelor's degree doesn't offer the same protection from unemployment that it used to.

Men ages 23 to 30 are discovering that a bachelor’s degree doesn’t offer the same protection from unemployment that it used to.

Amid a wider slowdown in hiring, the unemployment rate for men ages 23 to 30 with bachelor’s degrees has jumped in recent months to 6% — compared with 3.5% for young women with the same level of education, according to data analyzed by NBC News.

Now, young men with bachelor’s degrees are slightly likelier to be unemployed than young men with just high school diplomas, the analysis found. That’s a recent reversal after decades when young men with bachelor’s degrees had an advantage in the labor market, economists said.

Young women haven’t experienced the same trend; they are still significantly likelier to be employed if they have bachelor’s degrees.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Have you looked in the public sector? The pay isn’t as good, but it usually means much better benefits, work/life balance, PTO, and (up until this year maybe) job stability.

    Worst case, if you don’t like it, you could move somewhere else after you get some experience to put on your resume.

    • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Just today I was made aware of an open position for a high school math teacher that I’m finding myself surprisingly keen on. It is a private/charter school which I’m "generally* ideologically opposed to but in this case it’s geared towards sending underserved children to university.

      I was that child, only I received virtually zero support from teachers and made a shitton of mistakes trying to figure out university and adulting with neurodivergence. Helping to prepare guide and inspire the next generation actually sounds incredibly fulfilling.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Without doxxing myself, I moved to the public sector about ten years ago or so, and I will never work for a for-profit enterprise again for the rest of my life, if I can help it. A job is a job, but it’s just SO MUCH LESS soul-crushing when you’re not part of the capitalist rot.

        I can’t speak to private schools though… But that sounds fulfilling.