Sometimes Reality Doesn't Bite Hard Enough

I wish I'd thought of this idea in 1994 when I was struggling to find work after finishing graduate school. Then I could have looked like an idiot to the free world.

If you spend $70K in tuition costs for a 4-year degree and you're paying it to a school with no name recognition, one must question your intelligence.

If you attended class every day, achieved a GPA of 2.7, and consider this a positive feat, one must question your intelligence.

If you contacted all the employers listed in the college's career placement office, was contacted by two of them, received no job offers, and you think it's the college's fault, one must question your intelligence.

If you think it should be easy in this economy for a new college graduate with no experience and a mediocre academic record to find a non-retail job, one must question your intelligence.

I'm reminded of people I know who were fortunate enough to work at a company that gave their employees merit increases this year, and complained the amounts were too small. I would love to recommend they leave that company, join together to start a business, and hire the new graduate. It would be the only company in history that would have to declare bankruptcy before it officially existed.