Setting us up for Failure

You know I was sitting here thinking about what lies ahead for me. And I started getting frustrated because I finally finished college got my B.F.A. in Graphic Design (a major I really wanted to do) and I started thinking about my next step and how I am being held back because of the job market and my credit. I was always raised to get a higher education. So I did. But all I can think about is the ridiculous amount of loans I have to pay back. The credit cards I got just to buy books, and art supplies my freshman year at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Like I didn't even get to enjoy have a credit card because it was used for the things I had to have. So now I look back and start adding up all the loans from both schools I attended and thinking to myself. "Was it worth it"? Is it worth being on their automated dialing system that has me caught in the matrix of debt.

Because of our past idiot President Bush our economy is still coming back from the damage. Its hard to find a job out here. My field (Graphic Design) is trying to combine us with Web Designers. WE ARE NOT THE SAME. But they know if they hire someone with both skills they will save money and not have to worry about hiring two separate people. Then there is the fact that the web is sooooo impersonal. My mom and dad raised me to be able to really be personable on interviews, and to make sure I followed up on applications. I basically could get any job I wanted because I know how to sell myself and to really show off my skills. The younger generation is so involved with technology, basically raised by it that its ruining everything for us. I can't even call most places to check on the status of an application. Sometimes I cant even see what company I am applying for. They have put us in a position that all they do is look through the resumes and weed you out and not even give you a chance to interview. I would feel better if I was told I didn't get it, or you weren't qualified enough because not hearing any response, not knowing if they even received my resume was pure torture.

Technology is starting to ruin a lot of things. We are more impersonal all around. When dating we get to know people more so through text, or IM, video chat. I mean we barely have to go out anymore. People don't even know how to talk to each other or write to each other without using some form of Internet language. I don't need to call my friends and ask them what they are doing, I can just go look at their Twitter or their Facebook. Its amazing. Now don't get me wrong. I like it sometimes because I express myself better through writing anyway, but I'm starting to miss the personal contact (as far as talking on the phone). Are we so advance that we don't need that personal contact anymore. Are we satisfied not seeing my significant others or friends on FB, Twitter, SKYPE. Its so sad, by the time I have children there friends wont even know how to interact with each other. Soon we wont have to leave our houses for anything. SO I got a little sidetracked, back to the whole college and loan issue.

SO what pisses me off is the fact that they expect to get paid back, but are they understanding that in order to pay them we have to be working. And since jobs are scarce so are the funds. This country set it up that you have to go to college for the most part but then we do what you ask and still can't progress because there are no jobs available. Then you have all these people walking around in really bad debt, so they can't move out their parents homes, or they can't get government jobs because their credit is some shit. Its just a loose loose for a lot of people. I'm not sure what type of advice I have for upcoming college students. Should we keep allowing people to go into debt and not have a way for them to get out of is, or not pay them back? I just don't know anymore.

Any thoughts??