Subj : Re: California budget def
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Nov 26 2025 06:30:03

  Re: Re: California budget def
  By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Tue Nov 25 2025 10:10 am

 > No, actually I have been told by multiple jobless folks over the years that
 > they don't want those jobs.  There was one that hung around in FIDO
 > POLITICS (and maybe still does) that likes to complain about illegals taking
 > jobs, but also about how his government assistance isn't enough.  When I
 > pointed out that they were hiring fruit pickers in the SE US to replace the
 > ones that were deported, and suggested he could get a job like that, he
 > didn't like that suggestion.  He seemed offended that I would suggest it.
 >

Here in Spain the trend seems to be that people does not want to take jobs they are overqualified for. Say you have a STEM degree and you end up jobless for whatever reason... people here tends not to pick a random manual job even to hold it temporarily.

But the sword cuts both ways. When I was out of college I spent a couple of months trying to get an entry-level job matching my degree. That didn't work out so I started applying for lower level labor. It didn't work because people is just not hiring overqualified workers out of IT fields... you apply to a positions in sales for a construction prefabs company, they see a degree in Structures Engineering, and you are automatically out because they are looking for somebody with vocational studies at most.

Meanwhile there is a single North African dude with no studies earning OK money for irrigating most of the fields in my village. I don't know if he is doing it because no Spanish native applied, but I am sure if I had tried to get it I would have been kicked out unless I had been dishonest.


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