The Real Kait

Everything you’re ever told in college is for the eventual purpose of graduating and getting a job.  The professors repeating this endlessly to every class for the past 15 years of their career know nothing else but to get a job just like they have.  The common student obediently listens and does everything to the T for the benefit of their resume and the eventuality that they will submit it to a firm and be welcomed with open arms into the flocks of the drudging corporate workers.

What the professors DON’T tell their students is that when you get a job you are selling your life to the soulless corporations who most often view you as dispensable.  You spend your time, energy, and whatever enthusiasm and creativity you may have left for the purpose of performing for the man in the desk above you.  In return you receive the almighty paycheck, which tends to be taxed almost to disappearance, and you go on doing it over and over and over again.

Does that sound like a worthwhile use of your time, talents and hard-earned ( not to mention expensive) education?  HELL NO.  I would much rather think of a dream “job” and create it for myself, in other words, create a career for myself and by myself for the purpose of serving myself.  The very idea of getting a “secure job” that is entirely dependent on someone else’s company, someone else’s management and someone else entirely scares me half to death.  I didn’t work through community college, university and survive into my 20′s to subject myself to someone else.  What happens when they don’t need you anymore?  Well then you’re shit out of luck.

I’m here to start a REVOLUTION in the way college students think about their futures.  Stop thinking about getting a job, start thinking about creating a career for yourself.  Trust yourself, rely on yourself, you will make it and the satisfaction you get out of it will be a hundred times more than trudging through the trenches or clawing your way up to the top of a company.

So join me, and take your future by the horns and get out there!

Check out this blog by Steve Pavlina on his experiences NOT getting a job:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/

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