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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
What do you do with a BA in English?
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Well, I have a BA in English. I'm using it to be a smug ****. That and I'm going back to school.
I used to share your view, Sam. I wanted so badly to break free of Academia, to get a real 9-5 where I didn't bring anything home at night. When I was done, I was done.
Then I got out.
School loans may be a vampirism that Bram Stoker never realized. But if there's one sour reality that's waiting at the gates much sooner than loan payments, its that the real world doesn't give a **** about your intelligence, your drive, your ideas, or your opinion.
The real world is filled with soon to retire baby boomers, they failed to live up the the greatest generation and they hate their lives and their marriages. They grew up in the 60's and 70's and the world was supposed to all change in their wide-eyed revolution. But nothing changed except that the 2nd world collapsed.
They're done in 10 years or less. What they don't want is some miserable upstart with a sac full of promise coming in and asking them to skip the black coffee in favor of going to price upgrades for the lobby, or the software, or the way we process customer requests.
College may be bull ****, I won't disagree, but its some good experience if you're not being spoon-fed. Enjoy the hell out of it while you can.