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Originally posted by superman2012
If you have trouble finding a job in your chosen career, change careers. I did. It's working out fine. No sense working at a gas station or walmart the rest of your life griping about how well you could be doing if you were successful in your first choice.edit on 19-1-2012 by superman2012 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by doctornamtab
reply to post by SrWingCommander
I agree. They're handing out way more money than we can pay back. But isnt that the point?
The point of debt is to keep us complacent, off the streets, working terrible jobs and not protesting.
The thing is, we're protesting anyway. They got away with a credit economy for a long time but its crumbling because its fake. Now they try to call us entitled because we want fair wages,
I'm not ragging on you personally, but in general, older people just come at it from a different angle. To them, a "good job" is one that gives you health insurance and a steady paycheck. These aren't really the values of young people. We want to do what we want to do, what we were promised we'd be able to do with our degrees.
We want to make a difference, not just a paycheck.
Originally posted by Open2Truth
reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck
S&F for a very worth rant. And unfortunately very understandable.
So guess I should spill the beans here. I'm 50 years old. Not twenty-something. And I would like to add to your rant, if I might.
Many of my generation are yelling things such as "entitled spoiled brats." Why? Because they don't seem to recognize that the world we were raised in, educated in, and became adults in is gone. It is no more. In some instances, maybe it didn't even really exist, but was an illusion. Irregardless, many look around and yell that the problems experienced by our youth is their own fault for not playing by the rules to the game as we were taught. But the game has changed, and screaming nonsense about playing by the rules to the old one is, in my opinion, utter nonsense.
Our culture has gone off the rails, and its the younger generations, trying to figure out how to make it in this mess that has it the worst - by far. My generation needs to realize that we aren't in Kansas anymore. The game has changed. Time to come to terms with that, and stop deluding ourselves that this is a problem with the younger generations. Its our problem - all of us.
Originally posted by doctornamtab
Originally posted by superman2012
If you have trouble finding a job in your chosen career, change careers. I did. It's working out fine. No sense working at a gas station or walmart the rest of your life griping about how well you could be doing if you were successful in your first choice.edit on 19-1-2012 by superman2012 because: (no reason given)
So our choice is:
work in a profession where we have no experience, no education and no desire
OR
work at Wal-Mart and shut up about it?
Not much of a choice.
If I have a Mathematics degree who is going to hire me to copyedit a newspaper? No one.
Be real now.edit on 19-1-2012 by doctornamtab because: (no reason given)