"You think, six months ago I had a great on-campus job and social life. Now, I'm living at home, I have two friends and no academic stimulation for the first time in 20 years -- sitting in the basement, surfing the Internet, looking for work," Relyea says. "It's like, wow, I was just studying the cultural history of aborigines and now I'm looking at jobs where the main duties are answering the phone and typing.' "
"How are you supposed to make that shift? It's really something nobody prepares you for."
Boo hoo hoo, cry me a river. Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut.
This is in fact quite true. Teachers are clueless about the real world. They themselves live in a fake world of summer vacations, winter breaks, spring breaks, vitae and tenure. They have no idea how to prepare children for the real world since they themselves have never lived in that world. So what's their advice...keep going to school. And those that can't do, teach, usually at the taxpayer's expense.
Here's the problem. It didn't choose properly for education and now it's paying for it.
Wow... I felt like I really grew more intellectually in the years after college than during!
I wish people would quit saying that, because I'm working on becoming an astronaut. :P