The good thing about grad school is that you can mostly pay for it by being a TA or RA or whatever. And nobody’s trying to kill you dead… though some of them want to see your CAREER dead.
The good thing about running around in Afghanistan is that, eventually, someday, if you live that long, you get to go home. Wiser, one may hope, and probably a lot more cynical. Unless dead. And probably damaged mentally if not physically.
Ok. I’m confused by this one (as most of Rall’s cartoons). Neither the military guy or the grad student seem to be based on any type of realty, observable or otherwise.
I spent four years running around in grad school chasing “highly marketable” credentials and even went back to grad school after years in the “real world” and was continually told that there were “decent jobs” out there. and I should have one by now. All the time it’s not what you KNOW, but WHO knows you.
Rall is right, but he’s bitterly right in the “I told you so” sense. He doesn’t have the balls to go any further than to bitch and moan. What he COULD do and what he SHOULD do is to say, unequivocally, “this is what’s wrong and the solution is to change this policy or that procedure to X.” Bitching and moaning may scratch Rall’s “I-see-the-truth-and-here-it-is” itch, but it doesn’t remedy the CAUSE of the itch. Rall’s intelligent enough, educated enough, and experienced enough to suggest appropriate and cogent correctives, but he avoids putting himself on the line. Rall seems unwilling to hazard the judgement of his readers by letting them view his suggestions.
There are all kinds of medical jobs going wanting, if fact Bronson hospitals of southwest MI are offering large sign up bonuses and huge wages. Could be she went for a degree with little or no demand for it. If you want to follow your dreams go for it, but don’t whine later that there are no jobs looking for your degree.
My kids and their friends used to play the FML game trying to show who’s life was the worst. Most of the problems were first world problems so I laughed a lot at them. (And in the first Deadpool, Wade Wilson’s first meeting with Vanessa outdid all of them)
The soldier had no choice – he followed orders. The student made the mistake that too many students make: not researching job markets and industry trends before embarking on her particular career path.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
The good thing about grad school is that you can mostly pay for it by being a TA or RA or whatever. And nobody’s trying to kill you dead… though some of them want to see your CAREER dead.
The good thing about running around in Afghanistan is that, eventually, someday, if you live that long, you get to go home. Wiser, one may hope, and probably a lot more cynical. Unless dead. And probably damaged mentally if not physically.
ollou90 over 2 years ago
Ok. I’m confused by this one (as most of Rall’s cartoons). Neither the military guy or the grad student seem to be based on any type of realty, observable or otherwise.
VegaAlopex over 2 years ago
I spent four years running around in grad school chasing “highly marketable” credentials and even went back to grad school after years in the “real world” and was continually told that there were “decent jobs” out there. and I should have one by now. All the time it’s not what you KNOW, but WHO knows you.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 2 years ago
Go to trade school and learn a trade. You make good bucks and no loan payoffs for 50 years!
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 2 years ago
Guess you are both fools.. sucked in by propaganda.
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
I’ll take the grad school over bleeping Afghanistan, 20 times over.
cocavan11 over 2 years ago
Rall is right, but he’s bitterly right in the “I told you so” sense. He doesn’t have the balls to go any further than to bitch and moan. What he COULD do and what he SHOULD do is to say, unequivocally, “this is what’s wrong and the solution is to change this policy or that procedure to X.” Bitching and moaning may scratch Rall’s “I-see-the-truth-and-here-it-is” itch, but it doesn’t remedy the CAUSE of the itch. Rall’s intelligent enough, educated enough, and experienced enough to suggest appropriate and cogent correctives, but he avoids putting himself on the line. Rall seems unwilling to hazard the judgement of his readers by letting them view his suggestions.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 2 years ago
There are all kinds of medical jobs going wanting, if fact Bronson hospitals of southwest MI are offering large sign up bonuses and huge wages. Could be she went for a degree with little or no demand for it. If you want to follow your dreams go for it, but don’t whine later that there are no jobs looking for your degree.
ldmulvaney73 over 2 years ago
My kids and their friends used to play the FML game trying to show who’s life was the worst. Most of the problems were first world problems so I laughed a lot at them. (And in the first Deadpool, Wade Wilson’s first meeting with Vanessa outdid all of them)
ferddo over 2 years ago
The soldier had no choice – he followed orders. The student made the mistake that too many students make: not researching job markets and industry trends before embarking on her particular career path.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
God forbid that you ever have to think for yourself and figure it out.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
They lie to you, otherwise their profits will get hurt.