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the parantheticals are referencing teacher names to tell which room to go to for that presentation – left in a couple so you could appreciate the very appropriate location for the Law Enforcement presentation

these options leave a lot to be desired and make me wonder how the fuck they recruit for them, because it doesn't seem like there's much effort to get a wide breadth of interests and options.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Law Enforcement (White)

Don't even have to come up with a joke

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

that punchline to the bleakness of the career options was the entire reason for making the post

reasonable people would say it was silly to the point of caricature to make your fictional teacher cheerleading the fascist police state to be named after the definitional characteristic that made them safe from the repercussions of said fascist police state, but here we are

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not one science or medicine related career. Lmao. The west is going to to be left behind.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I didn't see!

Good, Nursing is damn important, especially with COVID being a dick

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

don't worry, none of the nurses here wear masks

I found out all about it when my mom was in the ICU a couple years ago

the healthcare professionals here do not understand airborne pathogens, as far as I can tell

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Same here in a lot of hospitals.

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

this was why my kid brought it up to me – so disappointing

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Excuse me, sweaty, that's what "Natural Resource Careers" involve.

Did you know that out of all bachelor's degrees, Petroleum Engineers are among the top 3 highest-paying careers straight out of college?

[–] omenmis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

as a current engineering student here, i fucking hate that thanks so much :)

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My career isn't on there, I couldn't even smash it into one of the categories. Do you have to be represented on the list to be invited?

drone pilot

doomer

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fr fr

like, there's so much that is missing from this list, but we have Military plus Drone Pilot, like those are actually separate things

it's just so bleak, the difference between what they're telling kids now about their future versus what I was told in the late 90s is just wild. "learn to oppress, or else" seems to be the sum of it

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aren't these usually just dependant on who volunteers to come to them? Not surprising that's it's a bunch of bullshit jobs and executives showing up because the people with real careers are too busy with actual work and aren't given the time to come talk to kids about their industry.

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actively read the newsletter every week and have never seen them ask for volunteers 🤷

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm thinking more like people who constantly come in and say they want to do this. Like parents who are so annoying that they are given this role to shut them up. Them and parents who are in industries big enough to have a plan to recruit from primary school

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

from what I understand, this

parents who are so annoying that they are given this role to shut them up

is not a thing here, which might be because we're in a pretty rural, pretty poor area, and there aren't enough bored parents with enough disposable income

parents who are in industries big enough to have a plan to recruit from primary school

there are no big industries here anymore.

from primary school

this is actually secondary school – my son will graduate high school next spring

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Child Care Teachers (Thompson)

Fitting since they want to arm teachers now.

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What flyover state is this from?

No manufacturing

No traditional trades (plumbing, electrical, carpentry)

No metal working trades

No repair or automation

No even anything CLOSE to automotive related jobs

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago
[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What the fuck is a flyover state?

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Not New York or California

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Non-meme answer: states in the middle of the country where there's not much to differentiate them to the point where people don't bother touching down. If you were going from Seattle to Miami, you'd probably want to get off the plane and get on a connection flight in Las Vegas. Or take a route that sends you through LA. But you would want to fly right over Utah, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Hence the term "flyover state."

The most exciting thing in Salt Lake City is probably the replica built in 1994 of the McDonald's Trump visited earlier this week.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are those all the options? It seems to be alphabetical. Does it just start with Heavy Equipment Operator?

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It might start a little before Broadband and 5G Careers from the title image, but it looks like that's possibly the entire list.

SAD

sad-boi

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Wow that is incredible. Really aiming high for the future generations.

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

the title image is the beginning of the list

I asked my kid for what the options actually were when he told me how bummed out he was by them

once I saw them, I was similarly bummed. how terribly uninspiring.

we live near-ish to several nationally-respected universities, they could have had speakers about so much more interesting shit

guaranteed that the people who facilitate this thing every year are barely paid enough to give a fuck, I don't hate them for not hunting down people from outside our county to inspire our kids. I hate capitalism for making the educational system be set up in such a way that the person in charge of this shit just takes whatever is easiest instead of trying to offer a range of options.

[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

sorry, maybe you can't see the initial image I posted

these plus the others are all the options