Reality Sets In For Another College Graduate

This story is nothing new to me, I'm surprised that no one told this kid featured below before now all the realities of life that he seems to have missed in four years of college as a history major, that for some reason his liberal professors and teachers and parents along the way didn't tell him that history majors aren't exactly in high demand.

Especially in a country that doesn't teach it's students history anymore, only to hate the country and what it stands for.

One could've gleaned that information from one weekend searching CareerBuilder and an internet connection or a $1.25 for the Sunday Paper I'm afraid.

I got more breaking news for this kid; the world is rough place so get used to setbacks and difficulties because we all have them and yours are just starting, believe me. Where may I ask is it guaranteed in the US Constitution that every college graduate is supposed to come out of college employed with a 70, 000 a year job by the way?

I missed that part in college and high school myself. So get a grip, stop whining and keep working hard and you just might get to were you wanna go. However, like many others in the world you may not and simply will end up doing whatever it is you must do to make ends meet. It doesn't come easy to most everyone, regardless of what you were erroneously led to believe on MTV and Comedy Central.

Take this selfish comment he makes further into his op ed here:

Upon graduating, I was helplessly launched headfirst into the “real world,” equipped with a degree in history and $32,000 in student loans. Before ricocheting back home, I would learn two important lessons: 1) There are no well-paying — let alone paying — jobs for history majors. 2) The real world is really tough

To quote someone from US History of recent to those points numbered 1 & 2 ; DOH!!

Student debt limits who we become:

The Buffalo News: My View: "I am 24, live with my parents, can’t find work and am floundering in a sea of debt five figures high. I think of myself as ambitious, independent and hardworking. Now I’m dependent, unemployed and sleeping under the same Super Mario ceiling fan that I did when I was 7. How did this happen? I did what every upstanding citizen is supposed to do. I went to college. I took out loans so I could enroll at Alfred University, a pricey private school. The next year, I transferred to the more finance-friendly University at Buffalo, where I could commute from home and push carts part-time at Home Depot."

Get ready now for some real major league complaining here:

Desperate times called for desperate measures, and I had no intention of living in a society that was as unfair as this one. To seek a haven devoid of the ruthless 9-to-5 ebb and flow of contemporary America, I moved to Alaska.

As a liberal arts major, I dreamed of making a profound difference in people’s lives. Instead, for a year, I lived in Coldfoot, a town north of the Arctic Circle that resembles a Soviet Gulag camp. My job as a tour guide for visitors temporarily alleviated my money woes because it provided room and board, but when the season ended and I moved back home, I was again confronted with the grim realities of debt.

Desperate, I browsed through insurance and bank job descriptions. I had hit an all-time low. Could I surrender my soul for health coverage and a steady income? Could I sacrifice my ideals by falling into line?OpEd continued if you can stand it...

You better do something besides complain, that much I can say.

This is about where my sympathy ended for this guy. Can you believe the condescending snotty drivel you just read about his ideals and soul while simultaneously denigrating hard working insurance salespeople and bank employees not to mention every other hard working job classification that aren't everyones dream jobs?

Good luck kid 'cause you're gonna need it. and a lot of it with that the world owes you something attitude. .

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