Are The French Under-employed Too?
I came across this French chick who has just published her first book; "The Trials and Tribulations of a Check-Out Girl"Anna Sam, the author is a college graduate. Her dream of going to work for a big publishing house didn't quite pan out like she thought, so she ended up working as a check out girl to pay the bills.
Reviewers say that her book is an amusing look at how service workers (mainly cashiers) are often overlooked and disrespected based on Anna Sam's personal experience. But for me, it just shows that being over-educated and under-employed is an international problem.
I contacted Anna via her blog to get her opinion. Here is what she said:
Bonjour April,
En fait, tous ces problèmes liés aux surdiplomés universitaires se retrouve de plus en plus dans tous les pays occidentaux. Et on en arrive à des extrêmes un peu fou malheureusement.
(Roughly Translated..)
Hello April,
Yes, problems related to the surplus of college educated people are found in more and more westernized countries. We are going the extremes (of becoming educated) unfortunately.
March 17, 2009
Posted in: Uncategorized
One Response
I’m glad to see some international opinion on this growing problem; for awhile I thought the US was in a downward spiral all by itself, but it seems it’s really just Western Civilization… Phew!
I really have no idea when the university diploma became the standard of human worth, but it’s about time we all start realizing that for 99.9% of people, college is all about getting a job, plain and simple.
Leave a Reply