Posted on 10/26/2007 2:09:03 PM PDT by Zakeet
Think you've got problems? Let Ken Ilgunas offer you some perspective. Ken's got problems, and the Buffalo News has generously offered him space to tell the world about them:
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. . . .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.
At one point, Ken was so "desperate" that he even considered working for a bank or an insurance company!
"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?"
Our hero stood firm.
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HEY!
I resent that...
Of course I have been in IT since before I even graduated...
I mean history is cool, but come on, I liked fast cars and slow women...
Lets see, he has debt because he wanted an education, but now that he is educated he wants to (maybe) save the world which is not a paying gig.
He is too good for 9to5 (what most of us call work)...
I myself majored in history. I am an IT professional have been since college. I helped feed some hungry kids three weeks ago. I pay my damned bills.
Maybe I should be his mentor.
here goes:
Hey sh*thead! Get off your a$$ and get a Freaking Job! If you still want to save the damn world after 8 hours of actual work, buy a homeless guy a burrito, but only after you pay your damn bills.
Glad I could help guide him a bit...
I started college majoring in Oceanography. During school I asked about my employment potential in the future as well as earnings. I was told that there were no jobs for us and most end up in other fields. I took that advice and launched another career. To bad this little whiny turd didn't look ahead.
The real world is really tough.
Could I sacrifice my ideals by falling into line?
You can give it a shot.
What are you going to do when your parents die? I know that's a harsh way to look at it but the reality is that everyone dies.
You ain’t too swift are you? I said that I moved out at 25, not 28! I got married at 28 which was considered very old for a first marriage at the time. I wasn’t clinging to anyone for support Doctor Fraud, I had joined the Navy straight out of high school and when I returned home my father was disabled with arthritis and my mother was going to nursing school at age 48 so that she could be the breadwinner, I stayed with them until they were back on their feet financially and then I moved two hours away to take a better job. Young men clinging to their parents for support don’t usually go straight from high school into the military. Don’t give up your day job, you will never make it as a psychologist!
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