Pressure

I hate that you’re completing a milestone and instead it’s mired in anxiety. You have your whole life to feel miserable about your career….. Seriously finishing school is worth something.

That “burden” line is also a load. I mean, if you can contribute, that’s great. It’s just… were you a burden while you were in school? Probably not. What changed? Building a career takes time, job searches take time. So this time now, not that different from when you were in school, you’re still learning and growing.

and there’s always telling them to screw it. I know, I was the good kid too, went to work at 17. Now, 19 years later I wonder if I was right to do that. Because for all my hard work, I took a lot of pain and unpleasantness along the way. I didn’t get many thanks or much repayment for the work.

So they keep pushing you, you have the option to say no. I only say so because it seems like some people think that isn’t an option, but it is. Blah blah social contract, the social contract is dead. My parents generation killed it with unions, pensions and the concept of retirement.

You get a job because you want to work, no other reason. Not out of guilt, because you don’t owe the world jack. The current generation is handing you the worst economic AND ecological climate in recorded history for regular people. You probably owe them a punch in the nose.

That’s another thing is what are you working towards, because the job you start today might not be there in a few years. So, plan accordingly, I am, and everyone I know still working is.

This has been the speech I wish someone had given me 20 years ago.