MisEducated

I find myself wondering why in the heck I got an education. I am the first in my family to go to college and graduate not only with a bachelor's degree but a master's degree as well. In 2002 there seemed to be great opportunity that I would graduate from school and move into this new classification of guaranteed middle class. I didn't grow up homeless but my family wasn't exactly the richest thing out there.
In this day an age it is becoming increasingly hard to find a job with a degree. A job that will pay the bills. I thought being poor and Black were hard enough but it seems that being an Educated Black has become the new face of poverty.

The debt a person racks up trying to so called, "get ahead in the world" will become the new determinate on whether or not a person has economic mobility. And in the state the the U.S. government is in, the future looks doomed. We will import all the educated people that we need, so that we can pay them minimum wage, while our own people will struggle to find a job to pay back debt with interest. Yes, our own educated people will struggle to find a minimum wage job because the skills to be learned through our inflated and overpriced degrees will be worthless. The skills learned will not prepare the student for the so-called real world experience that your piece of paper can be outsourced. That your piece of paper can be determined ineligible because the higher-ups decided to move in an entirely different direction.

So I own two pieces of paper with my name on it, and I will probably go for one more. 40k in debt got me one piece of paper in a frame on my wall. No job, no job opportunities for 4 years. So much for middle class right? So much for working-class right. So much for two pieces of paper that I will eventually have to burn to keep my ass from freezing.

The college dream and job deferred shrivelling up on the wall. The new affirmative action will definitly have to be giving educated folks a chance to work to pay back what we owe. Otherwise it seems that I could possibly continue being a professional student with no plan of ever paying back a dime.

That stupid "red whellbarrow" is rusted now and the white chicken has been plucked and eaten. We are in the process of creating a new class of the "educated poverty line."

I wish my teachers and professors hadn't lied about the whole bubble of safety and security that an education gets you. It all seems like a great myth that people tell in order to drive hope. Only in reality they were probably trying to give themselves a few extra years to save for reitirement, something that will probably not happen if I continue to invest the loan money from sallie mae into education.