彭博：成績普普 不如當水電工
【大紀元5月19日報導】（中央社紐約18日綜合外電報導）美國紐約市長彭博（Michael Bloomberg）今天在每周廣播電台演說中，告訴成績「普普」的高中生：去念技術學校比爭大學文憑有用。
他說：「面臨最多問題的人，都是學業成績非一等一的大學畢業生。」
「當水電工跟前進哈佛兩者之間，對一般人來說，當個水電工可能比較划算。」
彭博這麼說的理由在於，背負學貸債務的勞工畢業後挑戰更大，相較之下，水電工收入不錯，也沒有學貸負擔。
他解釋說：「你不用在無收入情況下，在4年支付4萬至5萬美元的學費。」
彭博說，水電工不用擔心工作被外包，或被電腦取代。
他聲稱有「多個」研究說，選擇以水電工為業的人，債務比大學畢業生少，薪水比大學畢業生多。
大學資金計畫專家康特洛威茲（Mark Kantrowitz）告訴英國「每日郵報」電子報（Mail Online），彭博的說法其實不離譜。他說，儘管唸大學是很好的投資，「並非人人都需要大學文憑才能找到好工作」。
他也說，只有菁英學校才會有市長口中的4、5萬美元學費。
截至4月，美國失業率為7.5%。
根據「學生債務計畫」（Project of Student Debt），美國大學生平均負債2萬6,600美元。（譯者：中央社蔡佳敏）
Mayor Bloomberg: Skip College And Become A Plumber
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told “so-so” high school students to skip college on his weekly radio show Friday. The soda-banning, salt-busting, cigarette-stomping mayor said kids who don’t perform at the top of their class are better off at trade school than going after an undergraduate degree.
“The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college graduates who aren’t rocket scientists, if you will, not at the top of their class,” he said.
“Compare a plumber to going to Harvard College - being a plumber, actually for the average person, probably would be a better deal.”
The mayor’s reasoning is that workers saddled with student loan debt face an even steeper uphill battle when they finish school. Plumbers, he said, make a good living without having to pay off student loans.
“You don’t spend ... four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition without earning income,” he explained.
The mayor said plumbers don’t have to worry about being outsourced or replaced with computers. “It’s hard to farm that out ... and it’s hard to automate that,” he said.
He cited a “number” of studies that allegedly showed plumbers begin their careers with less debt and higher wages than kids out of college.
College financial planning expert Mark Kantrowitz told the Daily News that the mayor’s logic is not far off base. While he said college is a good investment “not everyone has to go to get a college degree to get a good job.”
As of April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. is 7.5 percent.
He added “The only schools that cost $40,000 or $50,000 like the mayor said are elite schools.”
Bloomberg is famous for a number of “progressive” public health measures in the New York City, including expanding the smoking ban in every commercial establishment and even city parks. He banned trans-fat in city restaurants and made calorie counts on foods at chain stores be posted. He also advocates low-salt diets.
According to the Project of Student Debt, the average college student is $26,600 in debt.
Sources: NY Daily News, Daily Mail
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/education/mayor-bloomberg-skip-college-and-become-plumber
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses Kenyon grads
Bloomberg told the graduates that their capacity to learn is the greatest asset they have. (Kenyon College)
Gambier, Ohio — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg emphasized three characteristics that young adults need to succeed in life — courage, curiosity, and hard work. He made his remarks in a commencement address Saturday at Kenyon College, during which he referenced the shootings in Chardon 15 months ago.
Bloomberg told the 410 graduates on the Knox County campus to “Have courage to act on your hopes. Don’t be paralyzed by your fears. Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your idea.
“That kind of courage is at the heart of human invention and progress — and the lack of it lies at the heart of our political problems today,” he said.
“Last year, about 125 miles northeast of this campus, a 17-year-old student opened fire in his high school cafeteria, killing three people and seriously wounding others,” Bloomberg said in a quick reference to when T.J. Lane shot students at Chardon High School.
The three-term mayor then ran off 13 other places in the country where mass shootings occurred after that, punctuating the list with Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six teachers were killed in a shooting last December.
Finally, Bloomberg said, President Obama and some congressional leaders decided something had to be done.
The mayor was outspoken in his support of their plan that would have required background checks before gun purchases. He said in the speech Saturday that the proposal was backed by 90 percent of Americans and 80 percent of the gun owners. Yet the measure failed in Congress.
The reason for the defeat, Bloomberg said, was lack of courage.
“Many of them feared that voting for a common sense policy would lead to someone challenging them in a party primary or hurt their chances to win their party’s nomination to higher office,” he said.
“I’m saying: Take risks — and take charge. Don’t let others decide your future for you. And don’t wait for opportunity to knock.
“A former Kenyon student — the comic genius Jonathan Winters, who died last month — once said: ‘If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it’.”
Bloomberg said the current generation of young adults is starting to reshape society in fundamental ways. For instance, he said, the voices of young people played a crucial role in passing a law in New York that legalized same-sex marriage. And, Bloomberg said, he anticipates young adults in Ohio will eventually help abolish a state constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.
Bloomberg told the graduates that their capacity to learn is the greatest asset they have.
“Never give it up and never sell it short,“ he said. “Don’t ever be afraid to ask a question. The most powerful word in the English language is ‘Why’.”
He said the world is full of people who have stopped learning, and whose favorite word is “No.”
“Don’t listen to them, don’t be deterred by them, and don’t become one of them. Not if you want to fulfill your potential, and not if you want to change the world for the better,” he said.
“The future of the country is in your hands,“ Bloomberg said. “We are counting on you.“
Bloomberg, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School, apparently did his homework. His address was sprinkled with many inside references that reverberated with the students, including a joke about Gambier’s notorious shortage of parking.
He listed a host of things he had wanted to do before commencement, but “I spent the whole morning looking for parking,” he said.
New York City’s 108th mayor received an honorary doctor of laws degree at the ceremony.
“Your early success as an investment banker led to still greater success as a purveyor of that most valuable quantity, expert information, to the financial industry,” Kenyon Provost Nayef H. Samhat told him.
Six others received honorary degrees, including a doctor of humane letters degree for Gary Knell, president and chief executive of National Public Radio.
Kenyon College President S. Georgia Nugent also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree for her scholarship on classical poetry and tragedy, and for her service to higher education in general and to Kenyon College in particular. She is the 18th president of the school that was founded in 1824.
Three years ago, Forbes Magazine listed Kenyon one of the 13 most beautiful college campuses in the world.
It is nestled among rolling hills dotted with prosperous farms and other forms of agri-business, the economic engine that drives Knox County.
The parking lots on Saturday were filled with cars from all over the United States, a testament to the college’s status as a destination school. Mark Ellis, a Kenyon spokesman, said only 14 percent of the 1,600-member student body are from Ohio. Others are from across the country and 44 other nations, he said.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/new_kenyon.html
做水電贏過念大學 均薪多1萬
據勞委會調查，水電工平均薪資新台幣3萬7800元，經常性薪資約3萬4800元，比大學畢業平均起薪約2萬6000元高出許多。
根據行政院勞工委員會「100年職類別薪資調查報告」顯示，受僱水電工平均總薪資為3萬7849元，其中經常性薪資為3萬4774元，非經常性薪資3075元。所謂經常性薪資是指不含獎金等非按月發放者，薪資最低的10%者也有1萬8800元，薪資最高10%者約有5萬7200元。
資深水電工程業者說明，受僱於水電工程公司的水電工多是配合工程進度，以點工方式聘僱，少有正職人員。通常是學徒（沒有考取證照或具有水電證照但沒有工作經驗者）每月薪水也有2萬元左右。之後若取得證照，累積年資和經驗，每月收入還可達到5萬元至6萬元左右。
每月5、6萬元薪資已是當前許多拿大學甚至碩士文憑者望塵莫及的，水電工程業者補充，若一個工程如期完工，施工過程沒有發生工安事故，公司也會有金額不等的加給，給付方式視各水電工程公司而異。
根據「100年職類別薪資調查報告」，近10年受僱員工結構朝向「專業」、「技術」、「服務」三方向變化，包括技術員及助理專業人員、服務及銷售工作人員、主管及監督人員等，人數比例都有成長趨勢。而事務支援人員、基層技術工及勞力工則減少。
各職類平均月薪，最高的為電力及燃氣供應業，達6萬5373元，最低為教育服務業，僅2萬1129元。初任人員起薪，工業部門平均為2萬4620元，服務業部門為2萬4718元，都比去年略微提升。1020526
彭博：成績普普 不如當水電工
他說：「面臨最多問題的人，都是學業成績非一等一的大學畢業生。」
「當水電工跟前進哈佛兩者之間，對一般人來說，當個水電工可能比較划算。」
彭博這麼說的理由在於，背負學貸債務的勞工畢業後挑戰更大，相較之下，水電工收入不錯，也沒有學貸負擔。
他解釋說：「你不用在無收入情況下，在4年支付4萬至5萬美元的學費。」
彭博說，水電工不用擔心工作被外包，或被電腦取代。
他聲稱有「多個」研究說，選擇以水電工為業的人，債務比大學畢業生少，薪水比大學畢業生多。
大學資金計畫專家康特洛威茲（Mark Kantrowitz）告訴英國「每日郵報」電子報（Mail Online），彭博的說法其實不離譜。他說，儘管唸大學是很好的投資，「並非人人都需要大學文憑才能找到好工作」。
他也說，只有菁英學校才會有市長口中的4、5萬美元學費。
截至4月，美國失業率為7.5%。
根據「學生債務計畫」（Project of Student Debt），美國大學生平均負債2萬6,600美元。（譯者：中央社蔡佳敏）
Mayor Bloomberg: Skip College And Become A Plumber
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told “so-so” high school students to skip college on his weekly radio show Friday. The soda-banning, salt-busting, cigarette-stomping mayor said kids who don’t perform at the top of their class are better off at trade school than going after an undergraduate degree.
“The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college graduates who aren’t rocket scientists, if you will, not at the top of their class,” he said.
“Compare a plumber to going to Harvard College - being a plumber, actually for the average person, probably would be a better deal.”
The mayor’s reasoning is that workers saddled with student loan debt face an even steeper uphill battle when they finish school. Plumbers, he said, make a good living without having to pay off student loans.
“You don’t spend ... four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition without earning income,” he explained.
The mayor said plumbers don’t have to worry about being outsourced or replaced with computers. “It’s hard to farm that out ... and it’s hard to automate that,” he said.
He cited a “number” of studies that allegedly showed plumbers begin their careers with less debt and higher wages than kids out of college.
College financial planning expert Mark Kantrowitz told the Daily News that the mayor’s logic is not far off base. While he said college is a good investment “not everyone has to go to get a college degree to get a good job.”
As of April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. is 7.5 percent.
He added “The only schools that cost $40,000 or $50,000 like the mayor said are elite schools.”
Bloomberg is famous for a number of “progressive” public health measures in the New York City, including expanding the smoking ban in every commercial establishment and even city parks. He banned trans-fat in city restaurants and made calorie counts on foods at chain stores be posted. He also advocates low-salt diets.
According to the Project of Student Debt, the average college student is $26,600 in debt.
Sources: NY Daily News, Daily Mail
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/education/mayor-bloomberg-skip-college-and-become-plumber
“The people who are going to have the biggest problem are college graduates who aren’t rocket scientists, if you will, not at the top of their class,” he said.
“Compare a plumber to going to Harvard College - being a plumber, actually for the average person, probably would be a better deal.”
The mayor’s reasoning is that workers saddled with student loan debt face an even steeper uphill battle when they finish school. Plumbers, he said, make a good living without having to pay off student loans.
“You don’t spend ... four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition without earning income,” he explained.
The mayor said plumbers don’t have to worry about being outsourced or replaced with computers. “It’s hard to farm that out ... and it’s hard to automate that,” he said.
He cited a “number” of studies that allegedly showed plumbers begin their careers with less debt and higher wages than kids out of college.
College financial planning expert Mark Kantrowitz told the Daily News that the mayor’s logic is not far off base. While he said college is a good investment “not everyone has to go to get a college degree to get a good job.”
As of April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. is 7.5 percent.
He added “The only schools that cost $40,000 or $50,000 like the mayor said are elite schools.”
Bloomberg is famous for a number of “progressive” public health measures in the New York City, including expanding the smoking ban in every commercial establishment and even city parks. He banned trans-fat in city restaurants and made calorie counts on foods at chain stores be posted. He also advocates low-salt diets.
According to the Project of Student Debt, the average college student is $26,600 in debt.
Sources: NY Daily News, Daily Mail
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/education/mayor-bloomberg-skip-college-and-become-plumber
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses Kenyon grads
Bloomberg told the graduates that their capacity to learn is the greatest asset they have. (Kenyon College)
Gambier, Ohio — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg emphasized three characteristics that young adults need to succeed in life — courage, curiosity, and hard work. He made his remarks in a commencement address Saturday at Kenyon College, during which he referenced the shootings in Chardon 15 months ago.
Bloomberg told the 410 graduates on the Knox County campus to “Have courage to act on your hopes. Don’t be paralyzed by your fears. Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your idea.
“That kind of courage is at the heart of human invention and progress — and the lack of it lies at the heart of our political problems today,” he said.
“Last year, about 125 miles northeast of this campus, a 17-year-old student opened fire in his high school cafeteria, killing three people and seriously wounding others,” Bloomberg said in a quick reference to when T.J. Lane shot students at Chardon High School.
The three-term mayor then ran off 13 other places in the country where mass shootings occurred after that, punctuating the list with Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six teachers were killed in a shooting last December.
Finally, Bloomberg said, President Obama and some congressional leaders decided something had to be done.
The mayor was outspoken in his support of their plan that would have required background checks before gun purchases. He said in the speech Saturday that the proposal was backed by 90 percent of Americans and 80 percent of the gun owners. Yet the measure failed in Congress.
The reason for the defeat, Bloomberg said, was lack of courage.
“Many of them feared that voting for a common sense policy would lead to someone challenging them in a party primary or hurt their chances to win their party’s nomination to higher office,” he said.
“I’m saying: Take risks — and take charge. Don’t let others decide your future for you. And don’t wait for opportunity to knock.
“A former Kenyon student — the comic genius Jonathan Winters, who died last month — once said: ‘If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it’.”
Bloomberg said the current generation of young adults is starting to reshape society in fundamental ways. For instance, he said, the voices of young people played a crucial role in passing a law in New York that legalized same-sex marriage. And, Bloomberg said, he anticipates young adults in Ohio will eventually help abolish a state constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.
Bloomberg told the graduates that their capacity to learn is the greatest asset they have.
“Never give it up and never sell it short,“ he said. “Don’t ever be afraid to ask a question. The most powerful word in the English language is ‘Why’.”
He said the world is full of people who have stopped learning, and whose favorite word is “No.”
“Don’t listen to them, don’t be deterred by them, and don’t become one of them. Not if you want to fulfill your potential, and not if you want to change the world for the better,” he said.
“The future of the country is in your hands,“ Bloomberg said. “We are counting on you.“
Bloomberg, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School, apparently did his homework. His address was sprinkled with many inside references that reverberated with the students, including a joke about Gambier’s notorious shortage of parking.
He listed a host of things he had wanted to do before commencement, but “I spent the whole morning looking for parking,” he said.
New York City’s 108th mayor received an honorary doctor of laws degree at the ceremony.
“Your early success as an investment banker led to still greater success as a purveyor of that most valuable quantity, expert information, to the financial industry,” Kenyon Provost Nayef H. Samhat told him.
Six others received honorary degrees, including a doctor of humane letters degree for Gary Knell, president and chief executive of National Public Radio.
Kenyon College President S. Georgia Nugent also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree for her scholarship on classical poetry and tragedy, and for her service to higher education in general and to Kenyon College in particular. She is the 18th president of the school that was founded in 1824.
Three years ago, Forbes Magazine listed Kenyon one of the 13 most beautiful college campuses in the world.
It is nestled among rolling hills dotted with prosperous farms and other forms of agri-business, the economic engine that drives Knox County.
The parking lots on Saturday were filled with cars from all over the United States, a testament to the college’s status as a destination school. Mark Ellis, a Kenyon spokesman, said only 14 percent of the 1,600-member student body are from Ohio. Others are from across the country and 44 other nations, he said.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/new_kenyon.html
Bloomberg told the 410 graduates on the Knox County campus to “Have courage to act on your hopes. Don’t be paralyzed by your fears. Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your idea.
“That kind of courage is at the heart of human invention and progress — and the lack of it lies at the heart of our political problems today,” he said.
“Last year, about 125 miles northeast of this campus, a 17-year-old student opened fire in his high school cafeteria, killing three people and seriously wounding others,” Bloomberg said in a quick reference to when T.J. Lane shot students at Chardon High School.
The three-term mayor then ran off 13 other places in the country where mass shootings occurred after that, punctuating the list with Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six teachers were killed in a shooting last December.
Finally, Bloomberg said, President Obama and some congressional leaders decided something had to be done.
The mayor was outspoken in his support of their plan that would have required background checks before gun purchases. He said in the speech Saturday that the proposal was backed by 90 percent of Americans and 80 percent of the gun owners. Yet the measure failed in Congress.
The reason for the defeat, Bloomberg said, was lack of courage.
“Many of them feared that voting for a common sense policy would lead to someone challenging them in a party primary or hurt their chances to win their party’s nomination to higher office,” he said.
“I’m saying: Take risks — and take charge. Don’t let others decide your future for you. And don’t wait for opportunity to knock.
“A former Kenyon student — the comic genius Jonathan Winters, who died last month — once said: ‘If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it’.”
Bloomberg said the current generation of young adults is starting to reshape society in fundamental ways. For instance, he said, the voices of young people played a crucial role in passing a law in New York that legalized same-sex marriage. And, Bloomberg said, he anticipates young adults in Ohio will eventually help abolish a state constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.
Bloomberg told the graduates that their capacity to learn is the greatest asset they have.
“Never give it up and never sell it short,“ he said. “Don’t ever be afraid to ask a question. The most powerful word in the English language is ‘Why’.”
He said the world is full of people who have stopped learning, and whose favorite word is “No.”
“Don’t listen to them, don’t be deterred by them, and don’t become one of them. Not if you want to fulfill your potential, and not if you want to change the world for the better,” he said.
“The future of the country is in your hands,“ Bloomberg said. “We are counting on you.“
Bloomberg, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School, apparently did his homework. His address was sprinkled with many inside references that reverberated with the students, including a joke about Gambier’s notorious shortage of parking.
He listed a host of things he had wanted to do before commencement, but “I spent the whole morning looking for parking,” he said.
New York City’s 108th mayor received an honorary doctor of laws degree at the ceremony.
“Your early success as an investment banker led to still greater success as a purveyor of that most valuable quantity, expert information, to the financial industry,” Kenyon Provost Nayef H. Samhat told him.
Six others received honorary degrees, including a doctor of humane letters degree for Gary Knell, president and chief executive of National Public Radio.
Kenyon College President S. Georgia Nugent also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree for her scholarship on classical poetry and tragedy, and for her service to higher education in general and to Kenyon College in particular. She is the 18th president of the school that was founded in 1824.
Three years ago, Forbes Magazine listed Kenyon one of the 13 most beautiful college campuses in the world.
It is nestled among rolling hills dotted with prosperous farms and other forms of agri-business, the economic engine that drives Knox County.
The parking lots on Saturday were filled with cars from all over the United States, a testament to the college’s status as a destination school. Mark Ellis, a Kenyon spokesman, said only 14 percent of the 1,600-member student body are from Ohio. Others are from across the country and 44 other nations, he said.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/new_kenyon.html
做水電贏過念大學 均薪多1萬
據勞委會調查，水電工平均薪資新台幣3萬7800元，經常性薪資約3萬4800元，比大學畢業平均起薪約2萬6000元高出許多。
根據行政院勞工委員會「100年職類別薪資調查報告」顯示，受僱水電工平均總薪資為3萬7849元，其中經常性薪資為3萬4774元，非經常性薪資3075元。所謂經常性薪資是指不含獎金等非按月發放者，薪資最低的10%者也有1萬8800元，薪資最高10%者約有5萬7200元。
資深水電工程業者說明，受僱於水電工程公司的水電工多是配合工程進度，以點工方式聘僱，少有正職人員。通常是學徒（沒有考取證照或具有水電證照但沒有工作經驗者）每月薪水也有2萬元左右。之後若取得證照，累積年資和經驗，每月收入還可達到5萬元至6萬元左右。
每月5、6萬元薪資已是當前許多拿大學甚至碩士文憑者望塵莫及的，水電工程業者補充，若一個工程如期完工，施工過程沒有發生工安事故，公司也會有金額不等的加給，給付方式視各水電工程公司而異。
根據「100年職類別薪資調查報告」，近10年受僱員工結構朝向「專業」、「技術」、「服務」三方向變化，包括技術員及助理專業人員、服務及銷售工作人員、主管及監督人員等，人數比例都有成長趨勢。而事務支援人員、基層技術工及勞力工則減少。
各職類平均月薪，最高的為電力及燃氣供應業，達6萬5373元，最低為教育服務業，僅2萬1129元。初任人員起薪，工業部門平均為2萬4620元，服務業部門為2萬4718元，都比去年略微提升。1020526
Mark LaPedus has covered the semiconductor industry since 1986, including five years in Asia when he was based in Taiwan. He has held senior editorial positions at Electronic News, EBN and Silicon Strategies. In Asia, he was a contributing writer for Byte Magazine. Most recently, he worked as the semiconductor editor at EE Times.
