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Jun 10Schooling.
Yesterday, Lindsey had an experience common to many aimless twenty-somethings:
I didn’t pick my head off the desk but looked at Dawn and yelled, “my roommate only has to pay five dollars a month for health insurance and she has the summer off! Why didn’t I go to school for education?”
She picked her own head up off the desk and looked at me. “Because you wanted to be a poet.”
Underemployment (or unemployment) is a pretty common problem for graduates with esoteric degrees like anthropology, minority/gender studies, art history, etc. (I’d say my English degree and I only avoided that pitfall thanks to my longstanding interest in computers and the Internet), and this is another reminder that, in addition to discovering yourself, it’s really important use your time in college to hone professionally useful skills, especially for those currently graduating into a massive recession.