Law unfortunately. JDs simply are not worth much outside of this country. Canada has the NCA program I believe, but that takes a couple of years. If you’re familiar with this program please feel free to correct me. Foreign council is an option for many countries, but given that the legal system is slowly failing in this country I don’t see that as a safe long-term option. I lack general experience in that area anyways.
I have friends struggling to find work right now too. The political and economic climate being awful has contributed to this a lot, and I have to respect having some financial stability over potentially being in an unfamiliar country without such stability. I also suspect Americans may not be welcome in a lot of places at this current moment in time either. So that’s how it goes I suppose.
That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don’t have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don’t get it, it feels like we’ve reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just… suddenly aren’t needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that’s just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It’s a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.
I honestly am to the point that I wonder if all our automation is catching up with us and we need to collectively bargain for a 20 hour work week. Now we need twice as many skilled laborers because we’ve automated so many jobs.
Or an automation tax that’s paid back to every citizen as a dividend. If your company uses software or AI then it’s taxed more aggressively.
If we don’t do something in thirty years there just might not be hardly any jobs left.
What’s your graduate degree in?
Law unfortunately. JDs simply are not worth much outside of this country. Canada has the NCA program I believe, but that takes a couple of years. If you’re familiar with this program please feel free to correct me. Foreign council is an option for many countries, but given that the legal system is slowly failing in this country I don’t see that as a safe long-term option. I lack general experience in that area anyways.
I have friends struggling to find work right now too. The political and economic climate being awful has contributed to this a lot, and I have to respect having some financial stability over potentially being in an unfamiliar country without such stability. I also suspect Americans may not be welcome in a lot of places at this current moment in time either. So that’s how it goes I suppose.
That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don’t have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don’t get it, it feels like we’ve reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just… suddenly aren’t needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that’s just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It’s a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.
Yeah, I wish times were simpler. There’s too many qualified workers in the world struggling to use the skills they’ve spent years training.
Anyways, I appreciate your sympathy and I appreciate that you didn’t immediately reach for the nearest pitch fork when I told you my field.
I honestly am to the point that I wonder if all our automation is catching up with us and we need to collectively bargain for a 20 hour work week. Now we need twice as many skilled laborers because we’ve automated so many jobs.
Or an automation tax that’s paid back to every citizen as a dividend. If your company uses software or AI then it’s taxed more aggressively.
If we don’t do something in thirty years there just might not be hardly any jobs left.