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Disillusioned Employee rant

well, i have been out of school for about a year and change now (College) and all i have been able to get is temp work. Bull crap temp work where i am smarter than my bosses by a mile. The sad part is my degree has nothing to do with any of the jobs i have gotten, but thats ok. I hate doing temp work, and i hate the fact the only jobs out there for me are menial and degrading things like that...Or maybe i have not been exploring the job market enough.

I know that I am better off going back to school, or doing something that has more brain power to it, but these low life twits want to talk about " you need 2-3 yrs experience" or something like that, for good paying jobs....i have so few options, it seems that im better off being in the military, law enforcement, or getting a civil service job....On the other hand, those options sound better than going back to college for a masters, only to not get anything else in return but lowly temp work still....

College is a big joke, and it is being played on the minds and wallets of Americans everywhere. Unless you are going to be a doctor scientist or something of that nature, i dont think you need college. The most you need would be a tech school or something like that.

just my opinion

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You are right
Submitted by Carlos on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 18:59.

my son passed on college and went to tech school instead to become an electrician - he now makes $30 per hour, his buddies that went to college are either unemployed or make minimum wage at shitty jobs...you decide

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yup....i mean im sick of pare
Submitted by lonewolf on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 19:21.

yup....i mean im sick of parents telling their kids that without a degree you will not succeed in life...if that was true, then where would people like Bill Gates be? but i digress...i would love to go to a tech school now, but i cant afford it, plus i dont really have any aptitude for any type of work like that.

but i support tech school over college in the case of a lot of kids based on the fact that these kids who dont like English or any of those other boring classes are often good at taking apart engines or computers or other types of machinery, or they are good pilots..why should we be steering kids toward college and boring classes if they are good at something that wont take but a year or two of tech school training?

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The bast thing about college
Submitted by jobhater2006 on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 20:15.

-- is what I learned for myself. I know it sounds sappy, but getting through college gave me some confidence in my abilities to get thru stuff that I didn't have before. I suppose that must count for something. As for the knowledge (C++) I have not written a line of code since I graduated on the Dean's list. Ironic eh?

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You Got That Right!!!
Submitted by darthsidious on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 22:06.

I should not have gone to college. I would have been happier going to tech school.
Also, education is a big INDUSTRY. That means education is BIG BUSINESS. There are a lot of people making LOT OF MONEY off of the SAT and printing books for the SAT and running several hundred dollar seminars on how to pass college entrance exams....I think you get the picture.

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College is a crock
Submitted by pratmeister on Tue, 03/14/2006 - 01:32.

A waste of time, money and energy that you get through by reciting whatever crap some lecturer is spouting right back at him. A complete waste of time.

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im beginning to agree now for
Submitted by lonewolf on Tue, 03/14/2006 - 02:22.

im beginning to agree now for real...i mean that and the fact that everytime that i go to an interview and people ask me a question like this, or something like this: so have you tried to pursue your major? i have had to give politically correct answers, instead of telling the honest truth.

i mean i know i dont have the grades for law or med school, nor do i have the patience to endure that much more school work... i learn so much more from reading books and surfing the internet than i have from 4 and ahalf yrs of college..the fact that this college crap is pushed by the older generation (i mean if these people claimed to know so much fn more than us, they would know that college doesnt guarantee us ish) is some crap...they should be ashamed of themselves for pushing this degree mess on us. i know so many people who are getting along fine without a college degree, but sadly no one wants to give them a parade or a plaque, and its bull

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Forget it and move on
Submitted by gp9 on Tue, 03/14/2006 - 02:50.

OK, so you went to college and it wasn't helpful... but damn, presumably you're young (right?) and unencumbered -- no kids? dependents? mortgage? -- (right?)? What are your dreams? Do you really dream of working 8 to 5 with two weeks off? If you're just past college age, you're free to pursue your dreams -- figure out what they are and go for them. I have a well paying job and a master's degree -- and I work for The Man, and I hate it, and it has nothing to do with what is inside me. If you're like everybody else, and I hope you're not, you will eventually get past the phase you're in -- you'll get enough experience for a "good" paying job, or you'll go get that master's, and with that extra money you'll buy a house and get into debt and then you will be stuck.

PS -- all jobs are menial when you work for The Man. If you are doing somebody else's bidding, if somebody else is your "boss," that's already menial and degrading. It doesn't matter whether it's temp work or high-level policy analysis. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN.

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