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News Item: University graduates being forced to take jobs that match their skills
University graduates are increasingly having to take unskilled jobs commensurate with their lack of ability.
Figures from Statistics Canada show that the average wage for someone with a Canadian university degree has fallen to pretty much where it should be.
Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Canadian Institute For Social Research, said: "The fact that 20% of new graduates are unemployed says less about the current job market and more about the age-old problem of them being a bunch of useless, unskilled bunch of whiny twats.
"Nevertheless our higher education system continues to do its job of producing people who can round-up shopping carts without supervision."
The study showed that the best paid graduates were those with degrees in medicine, engineering and other things that actually need to be done.
Meanwhile, trade unions have demanded a halt to university graduates taking unskilled jobs, insisting they do not want to represent people who are even worse than public sector workers.
Holly Turnbull, a 1.9 GPA from Concordia University, said: "I had some nebulous plan that my degree in Wymyns Studies would translate into a six-figure income but all I have to show for it is a breathtakingly predictable tattoo.
"I was explaining this the other day to an old friend I sneered at for leaving school at 16 to become a plumber. But he just jumped into his Audi while asking if I would like to clean his condos.
He has seven of them."