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Daniel Dominguez
Professor Wielgos
College Writing 2
November 13, 2014
Ethnicities competing against the workforce
A favorite uncle or aunt tells you: "You'd better be realistic about your studies. Changes
are coming, and you need to be prepared.... A college education is expensive. It is
unconscionable to spend all that money and not get the training you need for a good job
immediately after graduation." Perhaps your favorite uncle might be right. Why is it that jobs
after college are getting difficult to find now a day? If the whole idea of attending a four-year
university is to graduate with a guaranteed career that will maintain you and your family.
Alumnis are being frustrated that they have no job right away of getting out of college and are
stick with paying off all those loans. Are college students not taking their studies seriously? Is it
possible that there are certain majors that guarantee you full-time jobs and an average starting
salary? In this paper, I will compare and contrast different authors that explain why the world
comes into this dilemma.
In the past, workers were getting paid the minimum wage that was very different from all
other regions. Many people who disliked their jobs, felt absurd because of the paid; therefore,
they gathered and travel across seas to the United States. Ursula Huws, a professor of
international labor studies at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan
University, reviews the changes in the modern workplace that have left us with a largely
uncharted landscape, in which jobs are created(and disappear) with great rapidity. In the article,
it briefly explains how different ethnicities are in charge of certain jobs and how other ethnicities

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are working in there. I feel like the author is trying to explain that many people who are not from
the United States are coming here and taking over the jobs. This is one of the reasons why some
of the regions once regarded as low wage, for instance Southeast Asia and Central America, are
now seen as relatively high wage, and the companies have left them to exploit even cheaper
workforces in places such as China, sub-Saharan Africa, and other parts of Latin Americans.
(Huws 12) Many people want to travel to places where there is a high wage for employees to
work and in the past, it was for sure in the United States. Many illegal immigrants came to work
and took the advantage to go earn their education. In the quote, I explained in the beginning of
my introduction, it talks about how realistic you need to be with your studies because changes
are coming. The reason is that other ethnicities are going to be arriving to the U.S and are going
to take advantage of the education. This is why it is getting tough for Americans to find jobs
because more and more people arrive with the goal of taking the education realistically. Thomas
L. Friedman, an investigative reporter and a columnist for the New York Times, explores the
opportunities and dangers associated with globalization. The Untouchables, brings out a quote
that is 100% truth, There will be plenty of good jobs out there in the flat world for people with
the right knowledge, skills, ideas, and self-motivation to seize them. But there is no sugarcoating the new challenge: Every young American today would be wise to think of himself or
herself as competing against every young Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian. (Friedman 2) There
will always be jobs out there for people that have skill and self-motivation. Now a day,
Americans are feeling like they are competing against other ethnicities, which is why many are
complaining saying, they cannot find a liable job right after college. It is important that you take
the education extremely important because there will be competition no matter what and for all
that, money you put in to go to waste is terrible. Friedman also gives a tip of advice for the

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females, he says, Girls, finish your homework-people in China and India are starving for your
jobs. (Friedman 5) People from across the world desire the education any American person can
get, which is why it extremely important to do all your education because you will be left out
with no job in the future. Every time I walk through downtown of Chicago, I see young men and
women asking for money and sleeping in the streets. This one day I seen a young man holding a
sign that said, I have a college degree but still homeless, I ask myself if he is being honest or if
really he cannot find a job. Finding jobs are going to be getting tough because more and more
students are coming to the U.S to receive the education and are going to take advantage of it.
Which is why, it is extremely important to take your education seriously because if you do not do
your time seriously, your education can be way gone.
Another article by, Alan S. Blinder, who is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor
of Economics at Princeton University, argues that the quality and security of future jobs in
Americas services sector will be determined by how offshorable those jobs are. Many
employees are concerned on whether they can be terminated or will they will be removed due to
another employer who has more education. It says, For the past 25 years, the greater a workers
skill or level of education, the better and more stable the job. (Blinder 1) This is why many
students want to pursue their education and continue on getting there masters or PHD. I totally
agree with this statement because the more education, then the more experience and knowledge
you have. It is important to take all the training the school provides you because it will benefit
you for your future career and knowing that you can continue on your education. Blinder also
talks about the two different kinds of services like: Personal services and Impersonal services.
Personal services workers are like barbers and surgeons, people that require close physical
proximity to customers. While impersonal services are workers such as call-center operators and

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radiologist; however, regardless of their education or skill, they will be at risk of losing their job.
The reason why is because it can be completed remotely without loss of quality and then
delivered via phone or computer. Perhaps, one of the reasons why many alumni students cannot
find a job after college is because of their major. Technology has been quite improving and many
jobs are removing because machines can automatically control it. It is important to go into a
major that is going to need physical contact with customers. Overall, as your favorite uncle
might say, college is expensive so take advantage of it and get more education. Richard W. Judy
and Carol DAmico write an article, Work and Workers in the Twenty-first Century, explaining
what we can expect from jobs later on in the future. We all do not know what jobs will be well
paid or what jobs will not be need. The best jobs created in the Innovation Age will be filled by
Americans (and workers in other advanced countries) to the extent that workers possess the skills
required to compete for them and carry them out. If jobs go unfilled in the U.S., they will quickly
migrate elsewhere in our truly global economy. (Richard W. Judy and Carol DAmico 10)
Workers will possess all skills needed to compete for jobs but if the job is filled in positions, they
will quickly travel somewhere else looking for them. I strongly believe that it is important to be
skilled in more than one thing because it can benefit you in the future. For example, you can
major in nursing but as well as knowing about electricity or even about construction. You need
to have a backup plan once coming out of college, and sadly, that is why many alumni are not
finding jobs right away. This is why it is important to take advantage of education because
competition is coming and not only Americans, but also people from across seas are competing
as well.
To end this, perhaps your favorite uncle might be just right. Education needs to be taken
upon realistically and not just a game. Competition is just getting started and it is important to

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take your education seriously and have more education and skill in the major you are performing.
Maybe this is why many college students are having trouble finding jobs right after finishing
college. It is always important to do research on the education you would like to pursue on
because you never know if it will control later on by machines. Technology has been increasing
tremendously and it will affect the economy. Overall, the issue on jobs after graduating college
will be competition. There is so many people from all over the world that want the same job that
you do, but you are in charge of how much effort you put it.

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Blinder, Alan S. Will Your Job Be Exported? [Summary]. Writing and Reading Across the
Curriculum. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Boston: Longman, 2011.174. Print.
Friedman, Thomas L. The Untouchables. Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Eds.
Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Boston: Longman, 2011.169-72. Print.
Huws, Ursula. Fixed and Footloose: Work and Identity in the Twenty-First Century. Writing
and Reading Across the Curriculum. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Boston:
Longman, 2011.145-48. Print.
Judy, Richard W. and Carol DAmico. Work and Workers in the Twenty-First
Century.Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J.
Rosen. Boston: Longman, 2011.163-68. Print.

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