No! Fuck it! If the education system hadn't been encouraged to become competitive during the goddamn Nineties I'd be teaching Philosophy or Politics for a living by now instead of soapboxing psuedo-versions of it on the internet. See, the University I went to didn't have the funding to run that many classes so somehow the Media and Philosophy lectures ended up being at the same time. They told me I had to make a choice between the two and that I could make up the missing unit with a minor from any school in the University. This was when I was already making a concession by taking a welfare unit instead of the sociology or politics unit I wanted because they weren't running that semester. I got pretty fucken angry about it all, dropped out and spent the next two or three years in a pretty bad state of depression. I know I didn't react in the best possible way I could have, but that doesn't excuse the fact that the Uni had more people studying to be physical education teachers than there were students with humanities majors. The bullshit dogma being peddled by the goverment about how Universities have to be competitive doesn't take into account how humanities disciplines inform and are the root of nearly every area of higher education and as such should be subsidised by other areas. Same goes for other theoretical studies such as mathematics or physics. Ideas are being cut down in favor of application, ignoring that without ideas the applications wouldn't be there in the first place.
Got a little off track there. But I'm not exaggerating when I say I'd be teaching. I was the best student they had, although I'll admit the pool they had to choose from was pretty small. My life would be better if the government was more concerned with people and less concerned with bottom lines and balance sheets.