There is a statement near the end about return of money on govt. loans (in America), and I am only going to comment on this statement since it affects so many in America.
We trust that as told, getting a degree is an acceptable way to increase our chances of winning at “The American Dream”…we fall for the lie. We go get educated, and accept the loan that Promises, that we will land a better job and be easily able to pay it back. We are willing to believe this lie and forgo some of the best years of our lives in hard study time. Next we graduate to find that no one is hiring us for the positions we have earned through hard work and a time sacrifice. Many of us are forced to (basically) neglect home and family during working through college, only to find it was all for naught.
We graduate to find that not only will those who we thought would hire us, have no openings…but those who would have in the past are now calling one overqualified. We have paid to get educations, and then we pay for the education with even fewer people wanting us to work for them. We were nudged out of the general labor pool. To swim in deeper darker water.
It is a system of lies and ties that bind. Stop the lie. It is very simple. As a manager or management team one must realize the individuals sacrifices to be educated, risking the dream, and applaud it by offering us work. Plain and simple…Hire us! Hire people who don’t have a great education because this country is born of the laboring class citizen, and Hire Us, who have worked to get an education, because you promised, you have convinced us over the course of our lives, that it was a great idea, to get higher education, to be successful.
You hardly ever mentioned the failure aspect. We are like sheep going to slaughter…and that isn’t fair in any country, nation or town. We deserve work, you promised it. I promised my children I would be a success, after being an A & B student. What I am, in actuality is a Certified Paralegal, with no job prospects, and no, the landscaping company is’nt going to hire me anymore.
Now hire us for crying out loud, and let us pay our freaking loans off, believe me, my bills top my list of things to do asap. It’s just not always possible to pay a loan when you can’t buy enough bread.
~Thanks for letting me vent here.
The above is what I wrote in the Mises Column...(I want a landscaping job again). haha
Next I wrote another comment, that I would happily accept a landscaping job to pay off the useless loan.
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