60% of U.S. workers don't have a 'quality job,' according to new research: The results are 'sobering'

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16. What does that even mean?

A profession requiring advanced college or professional degrees does not necessarily equal a "quality job." The vast majority of jobs in our country do not require any kind of college degree. It is only because companies stopped doing on-the-job training plus the gutting of unions that college degrees were being used as substitutes for union cards.

A job is an endeavor to help you pay the bills. It is NOT your life and NOT a hobby to the exclusion of everything else. If you are happy in it, that is icing on the cake, but a male-dominated "profession" making six figures isn't better. You are a failure in your "career" if you hate it. I knew lots and lots of attorneys, for example, who hated their jobs, but they were locked in with law school debt and so on.

And BTW, a "career" does not equal being in a profession, especially a male-dominated one. A career is a series of related jobs over a long period of time. One can have a career as an electrician, as a sales clerk, as a secretary or office manager, as a school custodian. A "career" isn't limited to having a professional degree practicing medicine, law, or being a CEO.

The article is elitist trash. There have always been "entry level" jobs, jobs not requiring college degrees, jobs that aren't "professions," jobs that are part-time. That is why I say that article is elitist garbage.