After school.
All of them said, misty-eyed, that college would be the best years of our lives. During this idyllic period, you didn't have to worry about working or surviving the rat race. Most times, you could study what you liked, wear what you wanted to, do whatever you wanted.
Yet such free-spirited living seems to be on the wane, with highly ambitious individuals even applying for internships at Top Firms even as a first-year student. They have their whole lives mapped out, like some flow chart whose directions are clear and unequivocal where the compass is Big Money.
What galls me is the narrowminded recruiting HR practices of most of this country. I abhor the assumptions made about one's socio-economic background, aims and even sexual orientation. Work is work is work; whether I take the bus or drive, whether I studied Greek or Economics, whether I am queer or straight, has nothing to do with how good I will be at a job.
I feel out of place here. Still, I believe that days even happier than college will abound.. they should. They must.
Posted in: Thoughts on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at
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