But. But. But... IT SAYS "ENTRY LEVEL"!!

Oh the joys of the Entry-Level job posting...

We consider "already in the building" as your "entry."

While I wasn't exactly looking for these jobs in particular, I wanted to make the point:

Entry-Level simply isn't "entry-level" anymore.

There once was a time where employers would look to employ graduates, knowing that they had the knowledge, just not the experience, the real-life training. "You've got a degree in this field? Alright, come with us. You'll only get better." There was a certain hopefulness to it. And now, it is gone.

A degree in Donut Perfecting Sciences?! YOU'RE HIRED!

Nowadays, you're expected to somehow focus on your education AND get experience. There are two ways to do this:

1. Be exceptionally gifted, hardworking, lucky, or any combination of those three.

2. Bullshit. 

And therein lies the problem. Education is no longer about being academic. It's now about either vomiting back information without thought, or being creative enough to lie through your teeth. 

In one of my classes, we read the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire, who finally launched Portugal into greatness.

"No. We're not part of Spain. Really." ~Some Portuguese travel brochure, maybe.

In the book, Freire spouts a whole lot of socialism all over the place. This, I did not like so much. However, he *did* have some points on the educational methodology in place right now. He phrased it as students being "banks" of knowledge which teachers "deposit into" and subsequently "withdraw from." In other words, we're not being taught to think, we're being taught to simply remember. And, believe it or not, the author of this blog actually found common ground with a socialist.

... that actually hurt typing.

Anyways, nowadays colleges produce more bullshit than the entire U.S. beef industry. It's gotten to the point where degrees are now worth little more than the paper they're printed on.

Pictured above: Your degree. Also, a double entendre if I ever saw one.

And what happens when you leave college? The knowledge is rather useless, and you get right back into bullshitting again. Do you have experience with Microsoft Excel? SUUUURE! Do you have experience in customer service? well not actually, I mean I've... YES, OF COURSE, CLEANING UP AMOEBAS FROM SMALL PUDDLES TAUGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE.

It's a wonder anyone gets hired: colleges train you to bullshit, employers seem to want bullshit, and if you DON'T bullshit well, you drop out and can't find a job.

In short, the world is bullshit.