Imagine if you will, college is over. It’s time to hang up the party pants and put on the big boy pantaloons. You’re at a point now where no one cares now how many consecutive cups you can sink in beer pong, or even how many chics you used to be able to sleep with in one night.
Nope.
You’re in the real world now. It’s all about being a productive cog in the workforce machine and making some money.
You no longer have anything to show for being good at games like “Quarters” and “Flip Cup,” except maybe a fatty liver. But let’s be honest, in the real world that doesn’t count for anything besides a higher health insurance premium. Insurance companies mention something about a pre-existing condition. Go figure.
That is if you have a job though. Pay no attention to the fact that we’re in one of the worst economic times that our country has seen in a while.
Recent graduates and those graduating soon…Pauses…For lack of a better term, you’re pretty fucked. And you’re even more fucked when those loan repayments start coming in. Sure you can defer it a little bit longer, but it’s only a matter of time before you either get a real job and start paying it back, default on your loan, or my personal favorite, go to grad school so that you’re able to receive more loans.
Then again there’s always the fourth and less traveled option of suing your undergrad college on the grounds that they didn’t provide proper career advice.
A 27 year-old woman from New York City, Trina Thompson, is suing the Monroe College, where she got her bachelor’s degree in information technology, because she can’t find a job accusing Monroe’s Office of Career Advancement for not providing her with the leads and career advice it promised.
Of course Ms. Thompson you not getting a job has everything to do with your college not providing proper career advice and has nothing to do with the fact that the economy is in the shitter. We no doubt are a sue happy nation, waiting for our chance to sue, but come on now. This just sounds as ridiculous as someone suing McDonald’s because their coffee was way too hot.
Couldn’t Thompson have done something more productive to deal with her jobless situation instead of wasting her time and the court’s time by filing this suit? I hear that continuing on your job hunt works wonders. It’s not like your undergrad college is capable of just handing you a job.
And in case that searching for a job doesn’t work she could always try to develop a drinking or drug problem. I hear those things make for great coping mechanisms.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to make myself another whiskey and coke before I peruse through the recent job postings over at Career Builder.
Original article from BumpShack
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