THINGS COLLEGE NEVER TELLS YOU
I have spent the past few weeks seeking a job. It just dawned on me that the world outside the four walls of a college is not as easy as I thought.
Well, I'm in my final year so why the fuss you may ask. Don't worry, you really don't need to educate me on the importance of getting a university certificate before seeking for a job.
I know how important it is.
However, my shocking discovery while on the quest to get the multi-million dollar paying job gave me a different mentality about what is actually going on outside the four walls of a university.
There is literally no or fewer jobs compared to the number of graduates every year. This is evident on the various groups I visited with big placards in my mind screaming "I AM AN UNDERGRADUATE WITH VERY GOOD WRITING SKILLS, EMPLOY ME".
God knows all those groups were filled with many placards bigger than mine from different age range and from different professional fields. Both graduates, undergraduates, married and even aged.
If all the college was teaching me was to read my books to get the best grades so companies would employ me, then where were the companies hiding?
It is so obvious that in this age where automation is taking over human labour the ratio of jobs available to the humans who need them is 1:15.
What then is the school preparing me for?
This Get-your-dream-job after you leave school is a white lie the school has sold out for some years now and it will only take a dreamer to still believe in this.
What the college has refused to tell its students is that the world outside the four walls of school is a dog-eat-dog world as well as a rat race.
The painful thing is that the curriculum of the school prepares us for jobs which were only available decades ago. The lecturers know this, the vice chancellor know this, even the non teaching staff know this but the students.
There are so many lies the college has told us but the recent one I can recall is getting to enroll in a course that still teaches the use of telephone and its importance in 2017, the same course claiming "in the nearest future, the telephone would be connected to the Internet and be able to send photos".
Well, it could only be realistic to teach that year's ago. I mean length of years ago.
It's the duty of the school to teach her student about the world outside, the realities and prepare everyone for it. College has only told us there's a world outside leaving the remaining part of the puzzle for anyone to figure out.
I know the silence of the school on this real life issue is a lie on their path.
The college seems to be comfortable with preparing its students for yesteryears.
Do not let college deceive you. There's a curriculum it has hidden in a secret chamber. It will never tell you except you discover it or something is done to change the whole system.
