Why I Hate Universities

Ah America! The land of the free and the home of the brave! What the fuck happened to this train wreck we call a county? In college I lived in my fraternity house for many years and, like most fraternal men, I was bombarded by a lot of big business, Republican propaganda. Not to say that I am a democrat, I will fuck with you guys later..., but I can say growing up in the south, but also in the 90's I used to be a very moderate conservative. You know Adoption not abortion, Capitalism above all else, and I would rather not vote on gay rights because I might be the first American to admit that everyone should have rights but gays make me uncomfortable, therefore, I don't have a fucking clue what to do about it and neither do you. I have been unemployed now for over six months. My parents are cool enough to pay for my apartment, food, ect. It makes me mad. I don't go to the movies or do any of that stuff right now, I would feel bad if I did. What pisses me off right now though is that I am one of a few in this country that has what I have. A degree, now they are handing these out like candy nowadays and I have read reports that college wont be worth the price in five years. I can believe that. Let me tell you of my experience... I graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. My course of study was television production. Now, that's all well and good but once I went into this esteemed career after graduation let me tell you what I have learned. First and foremost, it astounds me that American business has become so hell bent on education that someone who will willingly work their ass off and has experience, good references, ect... will get passed over for whoever has a degree and will work for the least money. Let me put in perspective to you, as a college graduate, what my views on a college degree are. A room full of overpaid, greedy, white males signs a piece of paper, written in a old english font, stating that "Even though this board has never met this individual, nor have we had any communicative encounter with him, we agree that John is a professional in an industry in which we have never worked, nor had any experience with, and therefore we recommend that you give him a job on the fact that he has paid us 10,000 USD a year for the last four years, which is enough to bribe us into giving you our vote of confidence in this individual. Sincerely, The Trustees of The University of Tennessee. Now, with tuition rising every semester when I was in school I figured, hey, I will get some starting job that pays a good realistic 28,000 to 32,000 a year and work my way up. Weeeeellllll, thats not exactly how America works. I won't go into what happened but lets just say once I got out of school I realized that if I would have just taken a few weeks of specialized computer training courses, which I had to eventually pay for anyways, I would have been in the same boat and been up about $30,000. I now cannot get a job in TV because there are no more jobs to give. The market is shrinking and now TV crews must do double the work for half the pay. In short, it has become a high school vocational job. Strangely, colleges don't tell you this while you are in school. In fact, they also force you to take a minor in something like Theatre, which also has no bering in the real world. What I learned is that Universities will do anything to fill seats in a classroom so they can make money. They are no longer centers for hire learning but wealth driven profit pushers. The days of colleges taking care of their select few students has turned into a scholastic Wal-Mart where most of the schools don't have the equipment to properly teach their over sized collection of student's what they will face in the real world, but we can pay multi million dollar salaries to football and basketball coaches. My university has treated both my fiancee and I like a blank check and they continue to do so. Lesson learned...my MBA will be from an online college because the employer just wants to see the letters on a resume. In America you don't have to be good at what you do, you don't have to work hard, you just have to know how to fuck the system. Hell most human recourse managers are too afraid to talk to a human being face to face anymore and their cop out is internet applications. To sum all of this up, my advice to all you young lads entering the workforce is that there are two types of people in America today, those being fucked and those doing the fucking. Your most important lesson to learn is how to work the system. No longer do hard work and determination allow you to achieve anything you want in this country because there is always a vulture out there ready to steal you lunch. Is it right? Hell no, but do you want to eat tomorrow or not?