Today this makes me question what I plan to do when I graduate in 5 weeks and how I will be making decisions for my life. Currently it's leading me to live off of a bike and the kindness of strangers and I hope that it will not be so affected by money and the necessities of life.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Further Education of a Gearhead
I really appreciated this chapter for the bluntness in which Crawford criticizes the academic world and the colorful language toward the end of the chapter. I personally find it very difficult to take people in higher education very seriously when I see little connection between thought and their actual existence. Crawford portrays the realm of academics as being influenced by the capitalist motivations of the corporations in power and this also makes me even more skeptical of scholars. If I was in Crawford's position once he took the high paying job I would not have been able to last more than a few days. I had a similar experience while working at a church in Colorado this past summer where much of the motivation and reasoning behind what they did seemed to counteract what I had learned about Christ. I made it through the summer in hopes of being able to help the kids in the youth group I was working with, but had it not been for the kid's need for good mentors in their lives I would have left.
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I'm with you on the post-graduation dilemma. I wish it was easier to make life decisions without having to worry about money so much. I think the need for money to survive is the main reason why people end up in jobs they can't stand in the first place, which in the end isn't good for anybody.
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