I am a newly college graduate. I should believe that my professors were put on this planet to be manipulated into giving me better grades, that going to class and writing papers is the hardest job in the ENTIRE world, that it is impossible to work and go to school and of course that the day I get my degree, I will have a 100k job awaiting me at my door like one of those giant million dollar checks.
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| Why Thank You I do deserve this check for my obvious importance in the universe |
I guess I am still waiting for my check. But this mindset never really hit me. It might be because I have worked at least one job (And up to 3) since I was 16. I know that the economy is awful and that throughout my vast education I have been lied to beyond my wildest dreams. I know that I have to work my butt off to survive in this world and I know I have to take the low positions just as well as reaching for the high ones. I know college doesn't mean my life will be easier and I know my 20 thousand dollars worth of debt is just another gash this country wants to take from me.
But here, I guess, is the biggest difference, I know my "party" years in college, where classes came mostly easy and drinking was discovered the only escape, doesn't mean the world should be handed to me and it doesn't mean a job should be either.
Out of all those college graduates I know, I am amazed at how many think that their party years through college should guarantee them a job with good money.
I don't think anyone has ever told them otherwise. For some reason they don't know that they still get to be the low man on the totem pole and they still get stuck taking the coffee orders for their superiors. You have to suck up and kiss butt for a few more years and hope that somewhere along the lines throughout those college years, where you lost valuable braincells, you remembered at least how to follow directions.
I don't expect a job to be handed to me. And I am not asking to make 100k this coming year. I'll be happy making 20k and having enough time to stop stressing out so much. I'll be THRILLED making 30k (which is more than I've made in a year so far.) I don't need money to survive. I need a job I love. That's why I picked teaching. That's why I push myself and that's why I don't mind being the coffee slave for a few years. In the end, my hard work and intelligence will pay off, not the piece of paper that says I am a college graduate and should be awarded the million dollar check.
