Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:11 am
http://www.thenation.com/article/164348/audacity-occupy-wall-street
Unbelievable. So, it seems the root of the problem here is that people have this idea that if they "work hard" and "get an education," then they'll just automatically get a high paying job. Why would somebody think that? A person who has a high paying job is someone who can deliver a valuable service to his employer. In a sense, that person CREATES SOMETHING OF VALUE.
People in this country really have a strange notion of what a "job" is. Just listen to the politicians talk about "creating jobs," or idiots yammering about "shipping jobs overseas."
A few years ago, Joe Therrien, a graduate of the NYC Teaching Fellows program, was working as a full-time drama teacher at a public elementary school in New York City. Frustrated by huge class sizes, sparse resources and a disorganized bureaucracy, he set off to the University of Connecticut to get an MFA in his passion—puppetry. Three years and $35,000 in student loans later, he emerged with degree in hand, and because puppeteers aren’t exactly in high demand, he went looking for work at his old school.
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Like a lot of the young protesters who have flocked to Occupy Wall Street, Joe had thought that hard work and education would bring, if not class mobility, at least a measure of security...
Unbelievable. So, it seems the root of the problem here is that people have this idea that if they "work hard" and "get an education," then they'll just automatically get a high paying job. Why would somebody think that? A person who has a high paying job is someone who can deliver a valuable service to his employer. In a sense, that person CREATES SOMETHING OF VALUE.
People in this country really have a strange notion of what a "job" is. Just listen to the politicians talk about "creating jobs," or idiots yammering about "shipping jobs overseas."