As graduation season gets into full swing many high school and college graduates will embark on new careers that will likely start off with them living with their parents for a few more years while they work for low pay but gain valuable experience, hoping to climb the corporate ladder, at a multi-national corporation such as McDonalds or Burger King.
Gone are the days for these former students of cutting classes and drinking beer and eating pizza in the college dormitory. Now they will be calling in sick to work and staying home and having beer and pizza with a friend. But the consequences grow more severe now as you move into adulthood because now your parents will be there to nag you about getting to work on time so you don’t get fired, lest you end up living with them forever.
And some of you won’t accept just any job to be employed. Some of you will hold out for something really good, as long as you know you are able to freeload off of your parents in the meantime.
Some of you will have CEO aspirations. Wanting to work at an organization like BP or Halliburton where you can make the really big money and have no real responsibility other than the job of spinning a good yarn for shareholders, or the press, or when you have to testify in front of Congress. Then when the heat really turns on you can retire with a golden parachute and live in the lap of luxury for the rest of your life with nothing to worry about but your conscience (although the genetic makeup of those guys usually doesn’t allow for that anyway.)
Sadly, those jobs are few and far between and are reserved for the kind of guy that has no true ability but was still somehow, through diligent wasting of years of their lives, were able to make it to the top of the food chain in World of Warcraft.
If the idea of giving nothing back to society yet making piles of money still appeals to you, may I recommend a career in law. It definitely worked for John Edwards and he almost made it to the ultimate position of sleaze, the President of the US, (at least that is what it appears to be for the last several decades.) But for him there must have been a slight flaw in his training because somehow a sliver of truth slipped out somewhere and, unfortunately, truth and sleaze don’t mix.
Still, some other graduates may be holding onto that hope of hopes that the Nigerian businessman who just sent you an e-mail about helping him to get his fortune into the country for a huge commission is actually legit. (Trust me, I’ve been waiting for it to happen for about 8 years and it still has not panned out, damn it. Expect that last one that wrote to me was the daughter of a rich guy…and it really did sounds like she could be telling the truth…aww, never mind.)
But many of you will be able to secure jobs in your chosen field which you will enjoy for the next several years. Then after about 5-10 years you’ll decide to switch professions and start all over again.
Then there will be some of you who become writers and have just enough success to keep you hanging on for a very long time, not allowing your hopes and dreams to get crushed by various naysayers and finally you will start a blog and write the kind of stuff you always wanted to anyway and still have just enough success to keep you hanging on and… I’m sorry, I have to end off now. I need to go re-read that e-mail from the daughter of the rich Nigerian businessman.
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