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A college professor asked his students to write an essay on this subject. Guess what the answers were? Simply pathetic is what it was. The indoctrination is almost complete.
As old Ronnie said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Sadly it appears this is the generation that hands it all away.
I was asked a question similar to this today at a job interview. The guy asked me "whats your dream job". I told him my dream job was to be an actuary, but I have to persue this ambition at another time in my life as I am in need of money. So I was interviewing for his administrative assisstant position. I honestly don't want to be actuary. I don't like numbers and I don't have the intelligence to become a certified actuary.
Truth be told though, I don't have a "dream" job. Dream jobs are a baby boomer and generation X type of thing. Generation Y just wants A job. Did this man honestly think I went to college for five years to be his secretary? No! But I have bills to pay and I need a job. Both of my past interviews have asked me this question and I swear to god when asked again I am simply going to say my dream job is to not make minimum wage, or to be a top paid male escort. When 25% of America's youth are unemployed I simply find it down right insulting that a baby boomer has the audacity to ask me, a 24 year old, "what do you want to do when you grow up". I just want a job where I might be able to grow.
Oh, and my particular American dream does not include a house. I much prefer renting. Maybe if I can pay cash for a house someday I will buy one, but because I am extremely debt adverse I am extremely cautious of ever being a home owner.
You know how the right is always complaining about how college professors indoctrinate their students instead of teaching them? About how "librul" professors are warping young peoples minds? Well...Jack Chambless is an example of the same thing except that he's a "conservative."
Chambless is well known around ultra-right gatherings and blogsites. He's a frequent contributor to right wing publications, runs his own blogsite, and sits on the board of a right-wing "think tank" in Chicago. By his own admission, his teaching standards include such things as swiping students wallets and going through their purses to find money for his "retirement cabin" to make a point about government theft, another term for taxation.
He's apparently a good teacher and the students love him, but he's an ideologue as surely as the most librul socialist college professor and just as guilty of pushing an agenda instead of teaching.
But, since he's not a librul, I guess that's alright, isn't it?
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When 25% of America's youth are unemployed I simply find it down right insulting that a baby boomer has the audacity to ask me, a 24 year old, "what do you want to do when you grow up". I just want a job where I might be able to grow.
I find it down right insulting that you blame a group of people that you obviously know nothing about for your troubles. Life isn't fair. It wasn't fair to the boomers, and it's not being fair to you now. Growing UP isn't about growing old.... it's about character, responsibility for your own actions, and telling the truth. Maybe if you would grow up people, no matter what their age, wouldn't ask you that question.
You do realize that you are not grown? While you are a young adult, there is much left to learn and your character, integrity and value systems are not even in lock yet. The question was not meant to insult you, it is fact. Instead of being so defensive and appalled, you should take that question, learn and grow from it. Once people your age realize you don't know everything thing and have very little life experience, growing will then begin and that is a sobering and good thingl
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Originally Posted by InsaneTraveler
I was asked a question similar to this today at a job interview. The guy asked me "whats your dream job". I told him my dream job was to be an actuary, but I have to persue this ambition at another time in my life as I am in need of money. So I was interviewing for his administrative assisstant position. I honestly don't want to be actuary. I don't like numbers and I don't have the intelligence to become a certified actuary.
Truth be told though, I don't have a "dream" job. Dream jobs are a baby boomer and generation X type of thing. Generation Y just wants A job. Did this man honestly think I went to college for five years to be his secretary? No! But I have bills to pay and I need a job. Both of my past interviews have asked me this question and I swear to god when asked again I am simply going to say my dream job is to not make minimum wage, or to be a top paid male escort. When 25% of America's youth are unemployed I simply find it down right insulting that a baby boomer has the audacity to ask me, a 24 year old, "what do you want to do when you grow up". I just want a job where I might be able to grow.
Oh, and my particular American dream does not include a house. I much prefer renting. Maybe if I can pay cash for a house someday I will buy one, but because I am extremely debt adverse I am extremely cautious of ever being a home owner.
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