It's easy to lose track of time, especially "when you're having fun." But no one ever tells you that when you are looking for a job, your job is finding a job. I had an inkling of what unemployment was about, I've seen my mother unemployed a few times, and watched as she would fall into work b/c of her connections she had made through the hospital system. And unemployment wasn't like this way back when. We sort of live in an era where we breed unemployment and debt disease.
In high school the teachers always whine and complain that "this is a taste of what college is like."-- Oh how they have underestimated it wrongly! They should've prepped us for what our economy is demanding right now. That way we wouldn't have a high demand in an already flooded industry. But we don't want to do hard work, and so the few people who DO that hard work b/c the rest of us refuse are in high demand but have low supply- they get paid more!
Unfortunately, the more you're paid the less is really required of you physically.
I had been looking online through profiles of single (24- 32 y.o.) females recently and had noticed that a small percentage of them still have not pursued any higher education past high school. To me that incomprehensible, and frankly the statistics of the people with high school educations earning significantly less than those with college degrees made sense to me. Then I had noticed a significant amount of those with professional jobs had marked education as "some college", or "associate's"-- Here I am with a BA in Psychology and am struggling to find work- but when I apply it's as if you need a BA in order to even be considered! What is failed to mention is the amount of debt these poor people accrue as they continue their education routes. I was watching a documentary on this phenomena called, "Mind Over Money"- A boy who was about to become a stock broker was killed in a tragic car accident leaving his parents with almost 82,000 in school loans-- my thought is, why is education here in the US not free like it is over seas? It would seem that the government wants us to fail in life, or certainly no thrive in it that's for sure!
Most people in Japan don't even have a credit card. The way our world works here, is that if you want to make a major purchase of either a car or a house, you can't get a loan with out good credit and you ca't get a credit card without good credit either-- most Americans accrue debt this way. By not being educated or knowing the first thing on what a credit card is/ should be used for. They set us up to fail.
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