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To: shades who wrote (66817)	8/1/2005 1:30:20 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Have you noticed the under 24 make the bulk of the unemployed? I was in Stockholm for 1 1/2 years with Ericsson and saw how much resources developed countries waste. The young people there were educated, spoken excellent English had access to seminars, internal training, but even with all that, many are jobless now. Ericsson cut from 103.000 to something like 60.000 to 40.000 in the wake of the tech-bubble bursting. My friend – young German girl writes: <<<I´m still alive! I was just very busy with studying. But now I´m enjoying my holidays. The summer this year is amazing, the last 2 months we have had 30 degrees Celsius at an average, sometimes more! So, I was rarely at home, but swimming in lake Constance. You know, they say "studying where others are on holiday" ;-) Everything is fine here. I´m working in a bakery as a part-time job and looking for a diploma thesis for my graduation. Hopefully, I´ll finish my study next year and get a job. But I´m not very optimistic. It´s very difficult to get a good job in Germany at the moment. We all are in bad mood. Maybe it is getting better in September because of the early elections. The government will definitely change, but the situation wont change.>> What is happening? I know Sweden is a special case but my impression is: The school is still teaching like they did when Sweden was a industrial nation. It has not been for the past 20 years at least. It is a post-industral nation that can only keep that standard ofg living if they overhaul their system from head to toe. Meanwhile Sweden is going down. It went from the third highest standard of living to the 20th. And will go even lower! Those kids at college need to be taught the following: The state will not be reformed head to toe in the foreseen future to make a positive impact in your career. Hence you have to know the nature of the state you live in and based on that knowledge take countermesures to be economically productive and not be relegated to the scrap hep as soon as you leave college. Or like in Europe: out of college in the unemployment queue. I know Germany is also a special case: Again the school is teaching to form people for a high tech industrial country as if Siemens wouldn’t go the way of AEG, Telefunken, Grundig, Marantz, Standard Elektrik Lorentz… etc etc