Grocery store workers are the only job for which Philosophy majors have qualifications.
Working in a grocery store or working in a fast food restaurant. Yeah, I know those are crap jobs. Those are not professional careers that people would plan their long-term life for. The job duties are a lot of hard work that an employee has to do, but they are not difficult to understand. Those are minimum wage gross jobs that you barely have to have half a brain to adequately work at. But those are the only jobs that Philosophy majors are qualified to do.
Looking back on this, I realize this is always true. Back in high school, they kept telling kids to go to college or else. But even back then, I had a nagging sense of, I guess one would call it “practicality realistic conscience.” Even back then, I realized that the generic call to college for everybody was not necessarily the best solution.
More importantly, they did not ever specify exactly what these kids should be doing in college.
I was sitting in MedTerms sp2001 class, and this revelation hit me -- kids go to college just to party, have spring break, and prolong their careless, carefree adolescent phase.
I am suddenly reminded of the TV show "Friends," which I think embodies the phenomenon of spoiled middle-class-white kids in college just as well as it obviously, blatantly displayed regarding spoiled mcw grown-ups.
I feel that these are self-evident truths about college education which leads into paths that one chooses for oneself. Kids, try to remember that this is just a TV show. You cannot major in philosophy of communications in real life and then expect to afford a spacious, fairly new, fairly clean apartment in a nice part of town in one of the biggest cities in the world.
Is this attitude of college kids just left-over relics, or dregs from wishful thinking from watching "friends?" Did a generation of people fool themselves into thinking they could achieve this comparable lifestyle by doing comparably the amount of work they saw the "friends" characters doing on TV, which was nil?
Ohhh, now I get it. All those nasty disgusting spring break diseases, grils gone wild, all that driveling, drooling mess -- it was all transpiring while these people were pursuing crap majors. All these disgusting things that girls kept doing to themselves, screwing themselves into a hole, that was whilst they were pursuing degrees in philosophy and history of English. (I apologize for using the word "drooling." That is an insult to babies.)
(hmmm.... this could work, this sounds like a more feasible and smooth transition.
I heard someone talking about how their kid was a Spanish major, and the other guy then asked him, what the hell is she going to do with that?
That is when it all fell into place. Even heretofore, I myself still thought of Spanish and African-American Studies as being reasonable, somewhat useful degrees. African-American Studies is multi-cultural, so at that point I still thought of it as a worthy degree to pursue. This was a devastating realization to make that multicultural degrees which increase one's awareness of the world, make one more well-informed, and ___ might not truly be practical.
Working in a grocery store or working in a fast food restaurant. Yeah, I know those are crap jobs. Those are not professional careers that people would plan their long-term life for. The job duties are a lot of hard work that an employee has to do, but they are not difficult to understand. Those are minimum wage gross jobs that you barely have to have half a brain to adequately work at. But those are the only jobs that Philosophy majors are qualified to do.
Looking back on this, I realize this is always true. Back in high school, they kept telling kids to go to college or else. But even back then, I had a nagging sense of, I guess one would call it “practicality realistic conscience.” Even back then, I realized that the generic call to college for everybody was not necessarily the best solution.
More importantly, they did not ever specify exactly what these kids should be doing in college.
I was sitting in MedTerms sp2001 class, and this revelation hit me -- kids go to college just to party, have spring break, and prolong their careless, carefree adolescent phase.
I am suddenly reminded of the TV show "Friends," which I think embodies the phenomenon of spoiled middle-class-white kids in college just as well as it obviously, blatantly displayed regarding spoiled mcw grown-ups.
I feel that these are self-evident truths about college education which leads into paths that one chooses for oneself. Kids, try to remember that this is just a TV show. You cannot major in philosophy of communications in real life and then expect to afford a spacious, fairly new, fairly clean apartment in a nice part of town in one of the biggest cities in the world.
Is this attitude of college kids just left-over relics, or dregs from wishful thinking from watching "friends?" Did a generation of people fool themselves into thinking they could achieve this comparable lifestyle by doing comparably the amount of work they saw the "friends" characters doing on TV, which was nil?
Ohhh, now I get it. All those nasty disgusting spring break diseases, grils gone wild, all that driveling, drooling mess -- it was all transpiring while these people were pursuing crap majors. All these disgusting things that girls kept doing to themselves, screwing themselves into a hole, that was whilst they were pursuing degrees in philosophy and history of English. (I apologize for using the word "drooling." That is an insult to babies.)
(hmmm.... this could work, this sounds like a more feasible and smooth transition.
I heard someone talking about how their kid was a Spanish major, and the other guy then asked him, what the hell is she going to do with that?
That is when it all fell into place. Even heretofore, I myself still thought of Spanish and African-American Studies as being reasonable, somewhat useful degrees. African-American Studies is multi-cultural, so at that point I still thought of it as a worthy degree to pursue. This was a devastating realization to make that multicultural degrees which increase one's awareness of the world, make one more well-informed, and ___ might not truly be practical.
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