As with many Americans in thus current economy my luck at finding a job has been rather disappointing so far. I have had at least five interviews thus far, but so far all of them have said “no” or “another candidate has been selected” or something to that effect. Even ones for internships or part-time jobs are hard to get. Look I am free all the time I have no more school to go to. I am prefect because I have no other real commitments to things like school anymore. I knew that it was going to be hard finding work, but didn’t think internships would just as hard. That is frankly ridiculous.
And why is it that most places I apply are not hiring people like me? Well probably because of at least one single stupid reason. GPA. Without a high enough GPA in this country you are weeded out before they even begin to look at the rest if your resume. Why is GPA so strong an indicator to “how smart you are”? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that is a flag thats says how good at school you are. Well I think thats pretty much bull because some people go through school without having to do anything to get good grades while others struggle through because it takes them longer to get concepts. The latter is where I see myself. Therefore that makes GPA an unfair assessor for the overall quality in candidates.
In my view people who do not have such good records in school typically have more common sense, which often more useful in life than just book knowledge. But this is not always true either, just everything else in life is not easy to tack down in specifics and rules.
Anyway. enough about that. What started me thinking on this is the Obama Administration’s new idea to pay off the Taliban in Afghanistan to switch sides to help the USA fight the rest of them. Apparently, we have been doing this is Iraq already, which I either did not know or remember. Whatever the case there, I think it is just plain stupid on both accounts. Lets roll back history here a second. Who gave what is now Al Qaeda weapons when Russia tried invading the Afghan region. Oh ya, that was us. As in the US! Well that did not go well for us in the end, did it? No, of course not because we are now fighting them under the War on Terror. So employing them, the Taliban, to switch side temporarily seems like a rather dumb idea because once we are finished there do we just take all the supplies back? Ans won’t they just go back to being the way they were? I think so. People are not easy to change. Money may do it temporarily, but it won’t bring a lasting peace.
So the heck are we going to us more money for outside country purposes when I and millions of others are sitting at home trying to find a job. Pay me Obama! I will go and hunt the people if thats what will make it work. I would rather not go there, but while I sit at home wishing for work to come around why don’t we just try to fix what we don’t have here and worry about that all later. It sounds to me like joining the Taliban over there right now only to be paid to switch would be a great idea. For all its worth most people here in the US don’t really care what is going on over there anymore, but this should get people talking. All this money supposedly being spent for stimulus this, stimulus that, but we are not seeing the outcome of it yet! Well hopefully it all comes full circle and I and the millions of jobless get jobs soon.
For some more information on the Taliban payment go here. It sounds like it is not official yet, but I don’t have the patience to read it fully, it just entices me to write about it. Oh, and Happy Halloween!
