poetry_babe

because I spent four years in college back in the 1980's, and let me
tell you it didn't to me a bit of good. In fact, it served to make my
life worse.

I was 19, starry-eyed, my mind swirling with possibilities. I told my
mom about wanting to get a bachelor's degree in electronics and she
thought it was a wonderful idea. I told my girlfriend I was going to
get a degree so I could improve our life together financially and
later when we got married, everything would be great.

What a load of bull. I was working full time as a purchasing agent for
a hotel and had to go to school at night. My schedule was absolutely
brutal. Any moment I wasn't asleep or at work I was at school, even on
Saturdays. Sunday was the only day I actually had off, and I had to
spend most of it doing laundry and shopping, and when time allowed, I
could see my girlfriend. During the week, I had to eat pretzels for
dinner out of the snack machine at school. (There wasn't even time
between work and school for "fast" food.) About three years of this
goes by. I had lost about forty pounds just from not ever eating
enough. I never had money because I was paying my own tuition. My
bills became harder and harder to stay on top of. During this whole
time I'm thinking to myself: "Don't worry, this soon will be behind
you, and a fresh new start awaits when you get your degree!"

Well guess what? Year four of college rolls around, and my girlfriend
(gorgeous, buxom, PERFECT) leaves me for some guy she met at a record
store. Her parting words were: "We never do anything together anymore"
because I could only see her four times a month.

Then the fun really begins. I graduate and get hired on as a satellite
receiver technician working with a bunch of rowdy ex-military yahoos.
One of the worst jobs I ever had, and it only paid 50 cents more per
hour than my "uneducated" job at the hotel. Meanwhile, time is going
by, and I am unable to make adequate payments to my student loans
because my earning power absolutely sucked, while the cost of living
continued to climb. Nowadays, my degree is considered obsolete, and I
have actually been laughed out of job interviews and can only get
entry-level positions wherever I go. Not to mention my student loan
has ballooned out of control to the tune of about $18,000. No matter
how much I pay per month, it keeps getting bigger and not even
bankruptcy will get rid of it.

Anyway, my point is, if I could go back in time and do ONE thing to
improve my life, it would be to NOT go to college. Just a speculation,
but if I hadn't sought after a degree, I could have kept the
purchasing job I liked, kept my girlfriend, my health, and I would
have made about the same amount of money with absolutely no debt to
worry about.

I realize a lot of people might disagree with my line of thinking, so
I will say this: It is not education and learning that I am against,
but paying 20 grand for a piece of paper that actually screws up your
life. Anyhoo, thanks for reading my rant. Smiles to you. :-)

Ok, this might make people mad but here it goes.......Smokeing in my
house. I don't smoke. I don't like the smell of smoke. I am not
actually allergic to smoke but it does bother me. If you come to MY
house and I ask you not to smoke inside then don't. Don't smoke inside
and don't go stand right outside of the front door and leave it open
so that the smoke blows in. Also don't go around telling people how
horrible I am because I won't let you smoke in MY house. It is MY
house NOT yours.

Anyone who wants to get mad about this, go ahead. Cuss, yell, scream,
call me names, whatever you want. I've heard it all.

Why is it that people feel they have to be jerks to get their point
across? If you act like an @ss to me, I will act like one right back
at you. What comes around goes around. The question still remains
though. Why do you feel you have to be an @ss in the first place?

Also, why do you have to point out every single spelling mistake that
people make when it doesn't even matter. Obviously you knew what was
being said. Even if you didn't, you don't have to point it out by
saying someone is stupid because of it.

Then there is the fact that these same people get mad when someone
points out their mistakes. I just don't understand some of the idiots
on this site.

Hi everyone. No great words of wisdom or really anything interesting
here so if that's what your looking for don't bother reading any
further. As you may have guessed from my nickname, I love poetry. I
have several books of poetry that I read quiet often but I also write
poetry. No I don't have any published. Curently I have only let a few
close friends and my boyfriend read any of the ones I wrote. I'm very
shy in person but feel that I can be more open on the internet so you
might not guess it right away. Well I gues thats all. Have a good day
all