The ways that life doesn't always easier is how jobs for those of us went to school are harder to get. many of us have to go back to school or if we hadn't already we make plans to go just so we can get better jobs. The job markets today want experience and education. It's pretty much a requirement. Not that I for one think that it is a bad thing, only some of us already have so much on our plate. Work and kids and other important bills. You see jokes about young adults going off to college only to come home with student loans that they have to pay back only they can't because they are still young and thus need experience. It is the same for some of us who are older. I for example am majoring in neuroscience and psychology and hope to a PhD in both. The field is highly paid and well respected. Many of my friends are majoring in medical. And I will tell you a secret, I never really wanted to go into the field but had inspiration from my handicapped daughter. I can't say what the generation younger than us is majoring in majority wise. I do know that many of us older folk may feel like it is the young people getting jobs out of college that we would have never dreamed existed 10-20 years ago. We are in fact in competition for high paying jobs with the younger generation ONLY if we have experienced a decrease in demand with our field of expertise OR if we need to acquire new skills due the demand of those skills. Now, don't get me wrong. I am highly in favor of bettering education and in better education for students younger than 17. Still many of us between the ages of 30-40 and possibly older don't know really of what to think of going back to school to acquire skills to get ahead and to get better pay. After all the cost of living is constantly rising and it can be easy to find that you can move from socioeconomic class to another simply because your income, occupation, and education are considered lacking based on the socioeconomic scale. All-in-all to top off getting to an age that you actually begin to miss your youth and freedom from responsibilities, you have to keep moving forward and feeling ever-yet older than before.
Which brings me to the subject of Motherhood, for the sake that I the blogger am a mother and in no way mean to offend fathers as many now can relate to the experiences many mothers live each and every day, and how it seems that even if we may have started young it seems girls much younger than us are becoming mothers. Begging the question of: why? It is already hard enough to be a working parent much less imagining a teen parent having to work, go to school, and still somehow believe that they can keep up with the high school social status that had before children came into the picture. It simply isn't that easy. I never lived my 20's and so if I happen to have enough money to dye my hair or get a tattoo or piercing, it is simply because it is a rare luxury and not something I or anyone else going through similar predicament feels is a must in order to show we are still the same person as before while being a working parent and attending school. I for one have no need to keep up with fads as many teen parents try to do. I could only partially wish and also warn teens of the challenging matter of being so young, working and trying to finish school if they happen to be the parents of a disabled or developmentally challenged child. Combining for the older folk having to deal with this a mix of wishing they had had it as easy as their younger counterparts while competing for jobs that are almost required to get ahead of the curve through higher education and training and being a parent to a children who may or may not be disabled or challenging.
Thus, we need coffee and not the more unhealthy energy drinks. I never understood why anyone in their 20's or younger has to have an energy drink just to get through their day when the rest of us could only wish for part of the amount of energy they have without energy drinks. Also, why do parents let their 12 year old's drink that stuff any way? I understand that some kids are pushed to compete to be better just to get academic free passes (as what I call them) into college and that's why they may feel they need these drinks. I never had to go through that and I don't believe my mother had to either. We had to get loans and work our way through school. Besides, energy drinks in some states require an ID for anyone above the age of 21. Coffee is the one thing more adults have been known to drink a lot of just to get through their day since the 1980's. When some of the best jobs were found in an office or in stock (back when the movie Pursuit of Happyness really did depict it correctly, you didn't need much schooling for).
I will conclude my blog for the day.
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