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"I noticed the UTW cover a few weeks ago featured a rather angry-looking young woman (GrrrTulsa?). as part of the Occupy Wall Street phenomena UTW reported on. Since Tulsa doesn’t have a Wall Street, I guess that’s how we got to Occupy Tulsa.
It brings back fond memories of my post-college days. I had graduated magna cum laude from a prestigious school. And not only did I not get a single recruiter visit in my field to my college campus, there was no job at all waiting for me upon graduation (this was right after the Penn Square Bank failure and subsequent oil bust of 1982).
Seething with rage, I did what any sane person would do. I beat up businessmen in parking lots. I blew up buildings. I shot people. I took dumps in public water fountains. I didn’t bathe for months. I set up a soapbox on a busy street in downtown Oklahoma City and shouted my tale of woe at the top of my lungs. Finally, one day a wealthy businessman came along, spotted me maiming people and causing property damage, and said, “that boy’s got spunk”. He hired me on the spot. And that’s how I became an evil corporate CEO.
Just kidding. I didn't do any of those things. What really happened was I odd-jobbed around for a few years, eventually went to a trade school, learned a profession, and finally got ramped into the career I wanted. It was hard work. It was stressful. It took years to really get off the ground. It’s just that at no point did I waste energy trying to blame my misfortunes on someone else. Because I understood then at age 22 what a lot of people pushing 50 (Rall) still don't get: life is tough, no one owes you a living. There will be misfortune. You will have obstacles. Overcome them.
We should think long and hard before blowing the “getting a college degree is a ticket to the good life” smoke up young people’s butts. It wasn’t true in my day, and it isn’t true now. Life doesn’t offer guarantees . Maybe if someone had ever bothered to teach them that, newspapers wouldn’t be wasting ink on OccupyWhatever, and the 20-something’s out doing the occupying wouldn’t be wasting their time."
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