As many educated and formerly well-paid workers become restless living on unemployment benefits and frustrated over fruitless job searches, some are opting for lower skilled jobs that pay less but will help cover monthly bills or simply keep them busy. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
This lacks the concrete data to establish the white-collar worker seeking blue-collar work as a verifiable trend. This is a case we see with a lot of "trend" stories (NYT is a particularly bad offender). On top of that, the narrative is pretty busted.
I agree with Vincent that this piece loses its way half way in. Not sure how it made it past an editor.
This story seems as though it were two different stories glued together in order to fill a space. The title is about White collar workers turning to blue collar jobs - and toward the end you realize that the article has just informed you that blue collar jobs have been exponentially lost in comparison to white collar jobs. Somewhere along the line the story of someone planning a trip to Europe amid their job hunting crisis (because of extended unemployment benefits) is nearly infuriating. I would worry about asking the writer for a letter of recommendation because there appears to be the risk of Mr. Farrell changing his mind mid-way through the missive.
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