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The class of 2012 is about to get a gigantic wake-up call: In the last year, college graduates were more likely to be employed as servers, bartenders, and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians combined. Only three of the 30 occupations with the largest projected number of openings by 2020 will require a college degree—teachers, college professors, and accountants.
Today, new numbers find that half of college grads under 25 are out of work.
In Chernock’s vision, MetroCards would be used as marketing tools for various New York neighborhoods and attractions. “Ideally I would like to make 50, print them, and place them around the city as a promotional component,” she says. (She has not contacted the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about adopting her designs, but says she would “like to get their attention.”)
18 Fabulous Redesigns Of NYC’s Iconic MetroCard See Them All->
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It’s convenient to think of the trash can as a black hole into which scraps and discards and mistakes disappear. But these cities, some of the greenest cities in the world, know better. Producing more trash means wasting more money and using up more resources that could be put to better use.
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The “Color in Action” project began when Pantone, which sets color standards for design industries, approached the graphic design students of San Francisco’s Academy of Art University with a challenge: How can color be used as a social vehicle to create change?
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Hustlin’: How I Became My Own Mentor in a Freelance Economy
The fact is, freelance is becoming the new 9-to-5, whether we want it to or not. Tom Fisher, writing in the Huffington Post, reports that “contingent workforce,” meaning the self-employed, freelancers, or “accidental entrepreneurs” laid off from full-time positions, will make up between 40 and 45 percent of the workforce by 2020 and become a majority by 2030.
As the “contingent” workforce grows, we need to embrace the freelance hustle.
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Snow boots and fresh snow = Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichesen
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Where Is the Next Generation of Innovators?
Everyone from business leaders to President Obama is calling for more young leaders in the areas of science, math, engineering, and technology. But many young people say they aren’t even considering careers in these fields. Why not? A recent survey asked them to explain their hesitance.
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