I F@#$ing hate private colleges !
– who over charge for shitty and below industry teaching standards
I can’t get a job in my industry – unless the paper french-fry holder at MacDonald’s resembles some shocking new trend in the print industry
– because –
HELLO HELLO I wasn’t educated properly!!!
If colleges and universities are not educational institutions anymore governed by the government
– shocking concept I know –
but businesses that are free entities
– cant I wipe my ass and return my diploma ?
Like returning my copy of house season 1 that wont read in my DVD player to the half sober bearded female Wal-Mart employee
For a refund of the money/time I spent – 3 years learning what I thought I needed to know
And now the turn about that the “education” I received was partial truths and whole lies
Of a main teaching scheme of this private college was “just fake it till you make it”
Of professors who would rather work on their own things – online rpg’s and book deals – than actually teach
And perhaps you think I dint study hard enough, or that I just need to work from the grown up I’ve had shit jobs and I’ve paid my dues/and I was in the top percentile of my graduating class
and as for those other students- my peers my classmates who I adore knowing worked just as tirelessly alongside me and taught me more than I could have ever hoped/imagined to have been taught by any school……very few of them are working in the industry either
And perhaps by some coincidence this has all timed out happening unfortunately to many and not just us students as we spiralled into this economic down turn
I just think something needed to be said for those of us who moved on gracefully from kindergarten /elementary/ high school to college and university believing the world before us was just and true and if we fallowed our dreams in all honesty – studying and doing your very best along the path of education- with hopeful parents cheering us on from the sidelines or struggling along diligently on our own forging our own paths into this world
That we would somehow be rewarded- for going along like the good little sheepole we were
Perhaps I was naive , unprepared for the cruelty of the world set before me
But I will not compromise my self nor my morality and I will find employment in a world I can only hope someday
Will say enough is enough.— Dunce cap kid
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong” ~Voltaire
This article appears in Aug 13-19, 2009.
Great tag, Andy! I’m still laughing =)
The tag was unfortunately the only interesting part of this inane, long-winded bitch.
I got a headache trying to piece that together….
I hope they weren’t studying for anything that involves effective communication.
So, basically the OP went to a private college (one that’s probably a “COMPU-terized college) and ended up spending WAY too much money for a useless “diploma” and is pissed off about it.
What gets me about these places is that they have programs like “HR assistant” and “Public Relations,” which you can take at ACTUAL universities/colleges for a whole lot less and have credentials that are actually worth something.
IMHO, people who fall into these private career college schemes are just a bunch of suckers. Not one person I know of who DID go to these institutions of “higher learning” ended up with anything more than a job at mcdicks or a run of the mill call centre job.
Buyer beware++
I particularly liked:
‘And perhaps you think I dint study hard enough, or that I just need to work from the grown up I’ve had shit jobs and I’ve paid my dues/and I was in the top percentile of my graduating class’.
I am just now realizing the OP meant to say ‘from the GROUND up’. At least, I think so…
Rule of thumb is usually that if you see an ad for a school on TV, it’s not a good school. The best are the American ones though that you see on FOX and TBS. The “medical assistant” programs and such.
Although the “real” schools have been advertising a lot in movie theatres lately, so I don’t know anymore…
Wow…now this is someone who is truely bitter !
If as Miles stated they were in a course that was suppose to teach effective communication, they definately deserve their money back .
If this person’s resume reads anything like this bitch, I can see why they’re not getting hired anywhere…
As an aside, my long-time favorite of the pretend colleges are the Art Instruction Schools. You know, the ones where you draw the turtle and the pirate and they tell you if you have what it takes to become an artist? I always wanted to apply when I was a kid, but my mom wouldn’t let me. Who knows, I could’ve been the next Rembrandt….
Hey, I’m a self taught graphic artist, no piece of arsepaper have I, but I never had a hard time finding work in that field. Work on your skills and get some confidence – blaming private school is just one long nasily whine on your part – no one cares, OP – get on with your life.
I disagree with the views above me to a certain extent because I have a university degree and a private career college diploma. In fact, I went to the one PK mentioned above. I felt I learned a lot of valuable stuff during my time at both institutions. And contrary to what everyone has said here, everyone I’ve met with my diploma from CC has a decent job in our industry. So I can’t say I consider what I learned there worthless. I’m working my way up through the industry myself and so is the rest of my class. Yeah some people who go to private career colleges don’t get amazing jobs but neither do half the people who go to university so that’s neither here nor there. Anybody who thinks going to any post secondary institution is an automatic guarantee of anything is kidding themselves. What TTFN said is absolutely true.
I’m curious though, OP since you mentioned the print industry. Did you take some sort of journalism course? That might be another reason you are having a hard time. That industry is hard to break into. Especially right now with the economy and the slow, sure death of the almighty newspaper and the downturn of the industry in general. But even 2-3+ years ago it was hard to break into. How do I know? I have a (university) journalism degree myself so it’s not necessarily just the fault of the private college you went to.
I think the OP did not major in English. This rant totally
lacks cohesion. There are no proper paragraph breaks and the grammar is abysmal. Maybe he can wash dishes somewhere.
There’s a reason why the phrase goes “clueless youth”…
Yikes, what a mess that was to read. I agree with MeOw…if his/her resume is anything like this bitch, I understand why they can’t find a job.
holy shit guys,come on,give the poor smuck a break here. i guess you really get what you pay for in some schools. i’ve had 3 different courses through the years, and still did me no good. as some here like to try and point out,i took law,child welfare,and physh., but here i am today, with no paperwork. seems to be the rage to have a qualified egghead, with little or no experience on the job these days.so what i’m saying,make your own life, don’t depend on book smars in the real world, they will fuck you up over experience every time.
oh c’mon bitches, everyone in this one horse town (run by an incestuous old boys network) knows full well that you ain’t getting a ‘good’ job unless you actually KNOW or BLOW the person(s) doing the hiring.
OB, my advice to you – LEAVE HRM ASAP – and don’t even think about coming back here, b/c this place will *never-ever change*
Ha ha shoe-chick, that sentence was indeed brutal.
I wonder if the OP attended a certain “centre” of learning, the one that had (has?) all the shitty ads in a certain weekly, because I’ve heard nothing but bad stuff and horror stories about that place.
can’t imagine why the guys hiring for the newspaper editor job rejected you.
One can only wonder?!?!?
if you don’t even take the time to spell-check when it’s underlined right after you type the friggin word, one has to wonder if you even take the time to wipe your own ass.
get a crap job, find a small contract in whatever you actually WANT to do and start building a resume. jobs are out there, pick one.
“I learned that you have to pick up the phone when it rings!”
“THANK YOU EVEREST INSTITUTE”
Three things:
1. I’ve had profs in universities who didn’t care about teaching either, especially in your first year. They care about being paid to do research.
2. It is who you know, but you can get to know people by networking and attending events they would be at.
3. I’d bet my student loan payments that if your program is offered at the community college, you are far far better off than going to a private college. Most programs I’ve seen at the private ones are offered at the community college.
I guess this is a lesson on doing a little bit of reseach before wasting a lot of time and money.
You can take a Human Resources MANAGEMENT certificate at Acadia for $3400 all inclusive. Takessssss like a month or so. OR you could pay god know how much (because they don’t list their fees/tuition ANYWHERE on their site) at a certain COMPU-terized College for a Human Resources ASSISTANT certificate.
I wonder which one would likely garner more recognition and respect?
Just sayin’
(or you could take the HR advanced diploma program at NSCC for a hell of a lot less — only problem with NSCC’s program though is that it’s always wait listed — smu also offers a cert in HR, but it’s a two year program at regular tuition prices. NSCC and Acadia would be a lot cheaper in the long run…)
Does anyone know the tuition costs at that certain private career college? It’s just so sketchy when a “educational institute” doesn’t put their tuition rates on their website. You have to contact them….and they’ll probably hound you to death afterwards. So sketchy.
Feel that private colleges that advertise on TV are screwing you? Why not call Jim, THE HAMMER! Shapiro?
Get educated via the military. Everything paid for plus being paid.