Was College "Worth It"?

My last blog post was ended rather abruptly because it was 17 minutes before I needed to leave, and I had yet to suit up.  We have an event today, so I must dress professionally.  I just spent way too long making that Jabba the Hutt image. 

Can you blame me? 

Today will be fun, but very long.  The event doesn’t start until 5:30, meaning that I won’t get off work until 8 or later.   

Was College Worth It?

I meant to discuss earlier how school hasn't prepared me for the “real world” in the least.  High school at least prepared me for exerting attention and efforts during working hours, but college seems largely to have been a waste of time.  My major (Telecommunication Media Studies) made me more qualified for the job I presently have, but it didn't prepare me any more than that.  Internships on a movie set and TV station are great talking points in an interview, but the work I did there was very different from what I do now.  Except that I still work a sound board.  That much is the same. And fun.

And I was involved in the Liberal Arts Student Council… in a leadership capacity.  LASC brought someone once a year to give us advice on our resumes… advice that was undone once I visited the career center here.  And rightfully so, the resume I prepared via instruction from LASC was pretty bad. 

But never did anyone give us then soon-to-be college graduates suggestions on how to find a job or network for a job.  We were left to our own devices. Every once in a while we'd have a speaker who was an entrepreneur come and talk about how they made something to do for the world, but nothing that was really practical for people who are just about to get out of college with student loans already to pay off.   

All in all, though great and fun and informative in many areas of my life, my college experience hasn’t prepared me for working in the real world very much.  I don’t wish I could take it back, but sometimes I wonder if it was really worth it. 

But hey, I have a job and am happily repaying my student loans.  So… nothing to really complain about, yeah?