Growing up adults and everyone for that matter always say "Education is the key to success." lately I've been feeling this isn't true. Case in point, I'm 23 with a degree from a recognised university, and will soon finish my masters degree yet it's almost impossible to find a job.
I mean a real job, not any dead-end, paycheck to paycheck job (not that those are easy to get either). Granted this is not a rich country and the job market is a bit saturated, but still I see other people getting jobs I know they aren't qualified for...so why can't I get a job that I QUALIFY for? That's because education doesn't matter, being able to do a job doesn't matter. Who you know is what matters. I can testify, that's how I got my first job.
That's why sometimes I sometimes wish (foolishly some may say) that I had been born twenty years earlier, when education was a truly liberating achievement. Today you slave and study and cover yourself in debt (student loans) before you even reach twenty and at the end of the day for what?
You may say I should value education for the sheer joy of learning and not just as a tool for getting a job and a better standard of living. However I don't think anyone borrows money to go to school just for the intrinsic benefit of knowledge. Hell! we would all just cram into public libraries or stay on the internet and Google all day if we simply wanted to learn new things. But we go to university so we can get that piece of paper to prove we are "smart" so we can get a job and money.
So if we can't get the job after all that...What the hell is the value of a university education?
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You write very well.
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