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Education is just luck

The other day I was going to cruise over to the BMV exam station to get my motorcycle learner permit and was absolutely furious when I discovered that they’re not open on Mondays.  But then I started thinking…

I can go whenever I want.  Then I felt lucky because the fact of the matter is that I’ve always worked white collar jobs or more recently am self employed and can just leave whenever I want to and usually don’t need to tell anyone where I’m going.

Then I started to ponder what options are for blue collar or hourly workers when they need to take care of things during the day, but can’t because they will lose pay or be fired or have some jerkoff supervisor counting every minute that they take off….and that must be absolutely miserable.

You know, if we’re sick or tired or just have something we would rather be doing, many of use have luxuries that we just take for granted….luxuries that we can’t imagine not having.  Meanwhile, so many others have to go to work ON TIME while they’re sick or their kids are sick or whatever, because it could be a financial disaster for them otherwise.  So, for anyone else out there that has certain freedoms in the workplace - remember how lucky you are, and the next time you’re going to take much needed pay away from someone because they needed to stay home with their sick kid - just ask yourself if you would stay home or go to work.

Here’s what really gets me though - snobby freakin’ people that think I’m not lucky and that I deserve these luxuries because I went to college.  No, that’s a bunch of crap. It’s luck.  I’m lucky that I had parents to pay for most of my college, and even more lucky that I grew up in a social setting where you went to college and that’s that.  Hey - I hated every second of college and if I didn’t have parents and friends driving me to just get through it, I would have quit in a heartbeat and would probably be a nameless “human resource” getting yelled at by a dickhead foreman all day long.

So for anyone out there touting your education and feeling just a little superior to those without - shove it up your ass.  You’re no better than them, probably don’t have half the work ethic that they do….and most of all - remember that it was luck and nothing else that got you there.

My rant is complete….maybe.