This might be a long rant, but please bear with me as I try to tell you my take on all of this, what may seem to not be a huge problem, in hindsight, actually really is.
We all have heard it time and time again, the preparations, the lectures, the teachers getting on your case, trying to prepare you for life after high school, aka college. What they don't tell you is how difficult it actually is in reality, not just college, but even just searching for a job itself.
To start off, I was only in college for a brief period, but even I could tell, that the system in college is beyond broken, the teachers either don't care, or are not equipped to help the students with what they actually need help within class, next are the books, the books are overpriced as hell, making it ten times harder to get the materials you need for class, the layout of most colleges are so huge, including community colleges, that you basically have to take a dry run to the college, and a walk around, to get familiar with where everything is.
The worst part in my opinion, is realizing that all the information you're getting in the college, you can access online for free, when you just spent hundreds, to thousands of dollars on your books and classes. Unless you get in touch with other people in your class, the likelihood of you getting help with homework is slim to none, the teacher probably won't help you, and that leaves you with paying MORE money to get a tutor to help you, or you have to self-teach yourself the material.
Let's jump a few years ahead now, say you graduated college, you got your degree, in whatever you went to college for, now you have to struggle with finding a job, searching for, applying for work, over and over again. In the beginning, you think it's easy, just a few clicks and then you'll land your dream job, then months go by, perhaps even a year or so, and you're still applying for work in the field you studied in. Then your forced to take anything, just to make money, have a job, and for everyone to stop asking if you have a job yet. No one talks about how soul crushing it actually is, going through all of that, looking for work, over and over again, going to interviews, getting your hopes up, just to get told, that you didn't land the job.
Yes, all of this happens after high school, and honestly, I wish someone would have warned me about all of this ahead of time, that way I would have been more well equipped to handle all of this. I only took a short course for CNA, and even I struggled to find work for months, I had to volunteer for 3-4 months before I finally got hired at a nursing home. You search on YouTube, and you will find countless people telling their stories, of how they struggled with college, or finding work in the field that they majored in. The people who don't tell you, are the teachers, the counselors, hell maybe even your own parents. So, unless you search online yourself, you won't know, until you're in the position yourself, when it comes to being in college, and finding work.
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