I'm a potential new guy, interested in Schneider...

Update, of sorts: no answer from Delaware yet. Went to take their basic skills placement test, and I ended up coaching people in the room on how to use the computers better than the state employee running the test. Then proceeded to goof two simple math questions for a score of 48/50.

A perfect 25/25 on the Reading section took me to a screen which said that my perfect score made me "capable of interpreting some college-level textbooks." (Thanks, Delaware. The advanced degree hadn't yet proved that to me.)

Now I have to go to a Career Planning Workshop...sigh...and that's not until 12/7.

Filed under news from the existing industry, the community college I teach at gave me $300 of special assignment work for the Spring semester. One student, no classroom, assess that student pretty much however I feel like. And I got a call about doing some online teaching. Regardless, the CDL is going to happen. Still impatiently waiting for however many more hoops Delaware is going to make me jump through.

 

To a point. Agree re: flat wages - thank you, stifling government bureaucracy - but credential inflation, in my mind, stops at a bachelor's degree. The notion that college is for everyone is a lie. I have to fight that thought when I teach because hospitality is one of the few industries left where degrees in its study are available but not entirely necessary. (Maybe trucking is the same because community colleges offer CDL-A? I don't know what else those programs offer besides what is needed to get the license...do they throw in business classes or something?)

You can still work your way up into a decent role without an undergrad in a hotel or restaurant, if you work hard and fly right. I know assistant GM's of hotels that are several classes short of an associate's degree and executive chefs that never touched culinary school.

As for me, last time I looked, about 8% of the US population has a Master's in something. Less than half go on to get the terminal degree; PhD holders are 3.6% of the population. I don't see credential inflation on the degree side, but I do see it with certifications. There are HR people that have five and six sets of letters after their name. I had a professor during my Master's program who held eight degrees...and he listed every one after his name, every time. Gag me.

 

SNBC pulled all but one tanker listing in my area. Guess the reading I've been doing about their bulk business going in the terlet was true.

 

Nor mine. Still waiting on Delaware, and in the meantime going on interviews at hotels if they come up. Signed my teaching contract for Spring term today, so who knows.