The Collapse of the Middle-Class Job

[Punx]

5. Fine by me

Someone I know has 4, count them 4 degrees including a Masters in a science discipline and hasn't been able to find work that pays half of what she used to make after her job was sent to China. Companies will often put her through three or more interviews before saying "no thank you".

In the 90's she was hired for an engineering job after a phone interview from a hospital where she had just given birth hours earlier.

Think of the difference here, a mother with a new born was hired, sight unseen, the hiring company knowing full well that she had just given birth and was willing to wait 8 weeks for her to start.

Times have changed, and not for the better.