AnnaTheActivist

And about the 'bleeding heart liberal" remark, the economic pain of not finding a job is something all sectors of partisanship are experiencing. As a matter of fact, seldom do employers ask about your party affiliation. Please don't use it as a way to argue around the ugly facts. If I care enough to spend the rest of my career trying to address the job problem, does it matter how I vote really? I'm liberal enough to care about everyone and that's a good thing.

I'd recommend that you begin writing an article a week and work hard to get published. Continue with a self-documented Independent Study Practicum and stay informed in your field. Attend public meetings, business summits, and lectures. In all ways, act as though you're already the professional you desire to be. I've devoted my PhD research to this very problem, that the talent of highly qualified American citizens is being underutilized, squandered, and effectively wasted. As a matter of policy to new grads, a system is needed so that the investment is not idled, financially subverted. A college student pays into the system BEFORE having financial security, actually a rude expectation on the young, so the investment must be respected by the free market that profits thereof so handsomely. But it won't be unless grads INSIST on it. I have theorized that graduates need to create new enterprise, methodologies (business missions), and capitalize on new realities. I read that research is as much about what is missing as it is about the quality and quantity of solid realities. I do wonder what we are all supposed to do as more and more work becomes automated, outsourced, exported, or discontinued. The decline is systemic, bound to continue, and must become the reason to create the next focus for prosperity. Things have changed in unfortunate ways since I began my college classes in 1981. I wasn't aware until recently exactly how and why finding gainful employment has become ever more difficult. I've worked in so many capacities which have little to do with my undergraduate degrees. Funny thing is that IT actually started the decline that very year, bathed in policy proclivities I made no effort to understand. I regret my earlier years of ignoring politics every day. IT is described as an incremental process, making changes to national policy, undermining the safety measures placed in law for the convenience to business. I see as many useful changes that were made in business policy as I do horrible mistakes in the last 30 years. Anyhoo. Check this book out and you'll very likely find everything you need to create a place for yourself and a great many topics for research articles! Myth America: Democracy VS. Capitalism by William H. Boyer I also invite you to join the United Steelworkers as an Associate Member. www.usw.org Please take a look at www.aflcio.org jobs and www.unionjobs.com. PEACE and LOVE, AnnaTheActivist