time to wake up and be a little selfish

June 03, 2004 @ 1:58 a.m.

Granted, I was lucky and escaped college without crushing loans, I have been affected greatly by the weak job market (if only I'd just done 1 degree and left a year earlier). I know I'm not the world's most qualified employee, and job searching isn't my strongest skill... but I should have a better job than i do. They just don't seem to be out there for anyone. I can't count how many friends work in jobs they hate, the first jobs they could find, and worst of all... no job. I see all the activists fighting for peace in the middle east, the prisoners in guantanamo and various other issues that are... well, not here. Not that our president is exactly doing much domestically either. That's not entirely true. He's doing his best to fight society's "scourges"... taxes, since public services like education are apparently not important and if you can't afford it, you must not deserve it. And the other 'scourge,' gay marriage, because if the two gold bands next door are around the fingers of two men or two women, surely, the earth will shake, the apartments will collapse into a hole in the ground and hellfire will rain upon us all. The point is, how can the united states make the world better (if we even should), when our own country is going down a long, dark spiral?

Anyway, I hope you've made it this far. I got this idea in my head from the following article that everyone 18-34 should be reading. It is from New york city's village voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0422/kamenetz.php

what couldn't be + what shouldn't be