AOC: Thinks It's American Taxpayers Job to Pay Off Her Student Loans!

[SamSpade]

Turns out that no matter how brilliant the college graduate, without true work experience they sit like deer in the headlights for about the first couple years of employment and need to be micro-managed to get any reasonable amount of self-motivated effort from them.

Do you know if schools in science and engineering still do co-op for a semester? I went to two engineering schools, and at each there was a program where you would take a semester off and a local firm would hire you and/or train you in a job there. SOMETIMES they'd pay for school if you agreed to work for them for a time after graduation.

If you DID that, you wouldn't graduate in four years - but you WOULD graduate with about a year or two of relevant employment. I also noticed that co-op students usually knew more stuff when they came back to classes, because they were actually DOING the stuff we were being taught in class.

 

[kwillia]

Do you know if schools in science and engineering still do co-op for a semester? I went to two engineering schools, and at each there was a program where you would take a semester off and a local firm would hire you and/or train you in a job there. SOMETIMES they'd pay for school if you agreed to work for them for a time after graduation.

If you DID that, you wouldn't graduate in four years - but you WOULD graduate with about a year or two of relevant employment. I also noticed that co-op students usually knew more stuff when they came back to classes, because they were actually DOING the stuff we were being taught in class.

PAXR contractors do... and there is internship via the government. Just going to college or having a great transcript doesn't necessarily get your foot in the door with those openings either... most often times you have to have something exceptional you bring to the table or know the right person that can get your application/resume pulled for review... otherwise most become lost in the masses.

 

[SamSpade]

PAXR contractors do... and there is internship via the government. Just going to college or having a great transcript doesn't necessarily get your foot in the door with those openings either... most often times you have to have something exceptional you bring to the table or know the right person that can get your application/resume pulled for review... otherwise most become lost in the masses.

That's good to know, although the programs I saw in college (granted, this was - ahem - forty years ago) were coordinated with the school and the employer.

 

[GURPS]

you make 174,000 a year, pay the loan off and stop whinnying

that was my thought as well ..... or larger payments

 

[glhs837]

that was my thought as well ..... or larger payments

What, and lose the drama quotient? Bwuhahahahahaha........ not friken likley....

 

[GWguy]

How about if she wants me to pay her student loan that she can pay my car loan...