Welcome Graduates!

In general to all new graduates from post secondary institutions, but specifically for those of you who graduated with a profession, say nursing, or teaching:

Welcome to the real world! Just because you went to school to train for a job does not mean that there will or should be a spot ready for you when you are done! Please do your best to resist the urge to whine and blame it on the government. Think about it: if you took a four year degree in philosophy, would you expect the government to hire you as a philosopher? What about business or science? Of course not! Why should your degree guarantee you a job any more than the rest of us?

I appreciate that the jobs done by teachers and nurses are ones that I could never do - they are demanding, time consuming and require one to put up with a lot of nonsense from ungrateful people, but that is why I did not choose those careers! I personally know a large number of highly intelligent university graduates who are working in jobs completely unrelated to their field of study, and who do not blame the government or anyone but themselves for this fact.

So to all of you: good luck with your job hunts, I am sure that something will come up sometime, and that until then you will survive. The wait will be worth it when you finally get one of those sweet union deals that makes it almost impossible to fire you, regardless of how good you actually are at the job!

I finally have a "blog"

That's right folks, it's the moment you have all been waiting for! I have graduated from the ranks of letter-to-the-editor complainers to a world wide web complainer! No more wasting my rants on other drivers and unappreciative telemarketers! ...ok, that's probably a stretch - I will probably rant at them too... Seriously though, I will try not to complain all the time. I will probably also not be able to resist bragging endlessly about the AMAZING development of my son (as though no child has learned to crawl before!!), and occasionally I will try to inject some serious thinking (but I'll try not to be too boring). Check back often for new posts!