<p>We are witnessing a pandemic of what I call "worklife unreadiness," and colleges face a daunting challenge in immunizing students against it. </p>
<p>Swarms of start-up adults, mostly in their 20s, lack the traction needed to engage the work side of their lives. Some can't make up their minds where to go and what to do, while others find themselves stranded along a career trail about which they are grievously na</p>
<p>Time Magazine also explored this recently; they called them "twisters." They roll around from job to job with college degrees and live with their parents for long amounts of time.</p>
<p>Good article. I bet there's a lot of merit in it. I can imagine that tons of high school students go on to college because that's supposedly the natural progression after high school. But then they don't look at college as a place to develop and prepare themselves for the real world. They party, do the required work, but fail to develop their analytical and communicative skills. And to make it worse, college life in many respects is a sort of bubble like high school is. I suppose that's why employers so value the real world experience of internships.</p>
<p>i think a lot of college graduates are going to get a smack to the face when they try to go find a job. (maybe i'll be one of them.. haha).. just because you aced a test doesn't mean you can do it for a company. which is why internships and working are great.. i dont know why someone would choose not to work during college if they had the opportunity..</p>
<p>Jobs right now are hard to find. I know a woman who majored in calculus at Duke. She finally got a job waiting tables at a mid-range restaurant, after about a year of looking. She told me about a friend of hers who majored in economics who cant find a job. Things suck.</p>
<p>I wasnt so sure about the article though. Maybe its just me, but would you guys expect your boss to be impressed with the angle of your baseball cap?</p>
<p>See what I find to be true is that so many people get caught up in their studies they are rewarded for for shutting in and not developing any social skills. If you reward anti-social behavior, it is only going to increase.</p>
<p>Also I believe that about the college education which is why interships and co-ops are so shoved down our throats at U of I. Well I want to do an internship but not this immediate summer. I'm going to still have a job but I will develop other skills I can't get with a chemical engineering internship.</p>
<p>I also agree with the people who just see college as the next step and not as part of developing and growing. I am taking Intro to Film. People are like, "So what Gen Ed does that get rid of?" My dream job is to be a director. I didn't see it happening for many good reasons but I still would like to understand and maybe further my study in it. I take extra classes to have fun and have a new experience, not to get rid of credits but that is how gen eds have become these days.</p>