This is bullshit…
You spend 4 years in college thinking you got it all figured out…
Graduate…realize the world and economy around you is not only changing…but your left feeling like you were among the last to know…
Ladies and Gentleman…I invite you to watch the accompanying video and take a walk in my shoes…
Now according to this CNN clip, a Manpower Survey concluded that the following jobs are the safest:
White Collar
- Engineers
- Technicians
- Sales Reps
- Accountants
- IT Staff
Blue Collar
- Machinists
- Machine operators
- Skilled workers
- Mechanics
- Laborers/production operators
So where does that leave me???
Broke…bitter…clueless…and closer to 30 than to 20…
Conventional wisdom would tell one to get on out there and grab a secondary degree, as I am a college grad…
However, that secondary degree is upwards of 100 grand, not to mention the fact that it was conventional wisdom that told me I actually knew what the fuck I was doing when I chose my major at 18…
That could be one of the worst fucking ideas ever…
“Oh yea kids, come on down while your half drunk and stoned and pick your future out of a hat…don’t worry…no pressure…”
I mean look what I’m left with…this video is either talking about a bunch of jobs I can’t get because I studied something totally different or $15, $16 dollar an hour manual labor and commission based sales jobs as the best options???
Is this really what my life has come to???
Don’t get me wrong… I have nothing against the blue collar worker….but if that’s the case I should have been a construction worker or picked up a trade straight out of high school and called that shit a day…
No midterms..no papers…NO LOANS!!!!!
Call me bitter…(You probably already did…weeks ago)…but I feel hoodwinked!!!
And its not like I expected to have 400 thousand in a savings account by my 26th birthday…but I expected to at the very minimum have an idea of the path I would be taking to attain that 400k…
Instead I’m like regressing…
Well that’s my first rant of the week…I’m sure it wont be the last…
Excuse me while I go attempt to sell some semen and/or blood (hopefully not mixed together…) to try and make ends meet…
Logical
D.Smith
And This Is My America? 