Day 20 - How important you think education is.
Education is a mixed bag.
If you’re uneducated in America, chances are you’re going on to business school and then to an overpaid middle-management position. There, you will send out poorly-punctuated motivational e-mails to your staff, often written in ALLCAPS because IT’S MORE ENTHUSIASTIC THAT WAY, RIGHT? You’ll spend four hours commuting every day in your BMW M3 on the highways, because you’re too good for Metro, after all. You’ll probably also wear short-sleeve dress shirts and have a Bluetooth headset.
In short, you’ll be a rich douchebag.
Educated people in America often end up majoring in English or Philosophy. At the end of their four years they usually end up driving a taxicab. However, this taxicab driver is fascinating conversation when the subject of Noam Chomsky is brought up.
You could also end up a starving artist, or a struggling novelist. Or worse, an up-and-coming journalist.
So you’ll be a an interesting person, but a poor one.
(Then again, you might major in engineering or something and make a bundle.)
Who knows? All I can say is that it’s safer to stay in school than to not stay in school.
