I’m not planning on hiring college students myself in relationship to anything that requires will power and inventiveness in the future, and I will be getting into business sooner than later.
The reason is simple… college evokes a ‘follow me’ attitude (remember the basic training unit ‘swallow me’ in Ft. Benning… that’s as college as the military gets, big stinking rotten college atmosphere of guys horny and yet unable to get it up) and shared associations, and assumptions of competency and qualification to speak and act over others. This is definitely NOT the kind of workforce I would ever be interested in, quite the opposite infact.
This being said, in all honesty, if stuck with Walker and a college grad, I would take the college grad until I could dump his ass for someone more qualified. I just figure you would drop the ball and bitch and whine all the time, and would try to kill me one day when I’m sitting on the toilet mining my own business.
I would be looking for independence, inventiveness, introspective leanings with extroverted skills, uneasiness with grass eating (taking small gifts that lead to larger and larger bribes), unorthodox knowledge specialties, and orthodox understanding of the norms in terms of weakness and strengths of normal behavior, and the ability to carry through when no one is looking, and the capacity to spontaneously fix problems and teach others how to fix them.
You can’t get that from college. I’m not interested EVER in hiring a college grad unless I open up some hypothetical hospital… and only then because there doesn’t exist a competent and legal medical association/guild.
I may accept someone who tried to make amends and lead a aspiring life largely built of their own character and endeavoring, and made a mistake of youth in going to university… much like some in their youth get tattoos and use drugs then change later on. But I take myself seriously… and a enterprise I embark on is expected to go far, and have no toleration of lazy, entitled effort, so the chances of finding a competent worker who also happens to have a degree is next to impossible. I’m not interested in fraternities, nor degrees, nor the name of the courses you cheated on to get through. The man within, and the world that can still be, found between the beats of the heart. Inspire me, and don’t let me down once inspired.
The end result of course is, my employees will be groomed in their own right to become competent businessmen. It’s a much better basis for society than the failed system we’re left with of college mills pumping out students who can’t figure out that the delusional mass growth of stock exchange, treasury bonds, and home worth wouldn’t remain stable as the baby boomers aged and used their assets, dropping the statistical curve downward for everyone all at once, and that having something called a ‘sub-prime loan’ was a very fucking bad idea. But the university mills- which have continued to GROW GROW GROW larger and larger during this depression (sprouting up buildings all over San Francisco) don’t teach even basic common sense. There’s a damn reason why I never took out a mortgage when in the Army. I remember 2005-2006 everyone in the infantry in Alaska was trying to get into the housing market in Eagle River up to Wasilla… especially the college graduates in the ranks… big stories, impossible for their to be a bust.
I pointed out all the money was tired up in old people and corporations selling products… and the government was set to consume half of every inheritance, effectively lost to the economy, down a bureaucratic drain, used on bullshit who knows what, and most certainly out of the economy save for purchasing pens and legal paper and toner. I myself didn’t think in the long term the wars would go on forever, much less everyone would be always stationed in Alaska, like some big old happy family where the ranks never change out or people sent elsewhere. I didn’t jump on board, others did. Best of luck to them… now they can’t get out of the military if they were lucky enough to hold on to them, but almost all of them are stuck in the same glass ceiling rank of E-6… unable to break out as this massive downsizing takes effect. Oh… but the fucking statistics kept getting brighter and brighter the whole time back then. HA HA HA HA!
I live my life for a reason. Independence and debt free. I collect knowledge, experience, and first hand skill in adapting to impossible circumstance. This is good for business, but bad for loans… therefor, I’ll have to go for a business model minus bank loans. I am stubborn enough to carry through with it. And stubborn enough to hire as I please, and to succeed where no one else dreamed of trying.
Still not hiring you though Walker. Your Ms. perhaps, but not you.