I was fighting for over a decade, trying to convince America to allow me an office job. Fascist America has taken many years of my life away from me. Achieving the basic white collar occupation, a goal quickly and easily attainable for almost everyone interested, has now been achieved, and I’m finally starting my first full time permanent office position this week in at Wisconsin Foundation & Alumni Association (WFAA).
This full time gig with WFAA is important to me for security, and the benefits, but also for developing an extended corporate work history with one company. I have worked other office jobs before but they’ve been either unpaid, very part time, or temporary, forcing me to jump from one to another, or do independent freelance work — which has been frowned upon in my case and not seen as “filling in the gaps”. Coming up on 2 years with this same organization.
I started out as an intern at the firm I work at now, worked up to permanent part time, pushed through the ridiculous personal attacks and hate crimes from the many psychotic stan stalker passive aggressive fraudulent abusive gossipy office junky IT thugs there, and landed a well deserved full time job at the non-profit org upon graduation from Madison Area Technical College (MATC). A strange, transformative, enlightening experience. I’m feeling renewed with this new offer, feeling positive, and I think it can only get better from here.
I opted to take the online courses whenever I could during my time at MATC. This is not how I prefer to take my classes. I want to be in person, collaborate with classmates, and have one-on-one time with the teacher if I choose. The online courses are better for certain types of learners but not this one. Remote classes worked better with my work schedule, and I’m adaptable, so I made it work, but I was stressed out and exhausted the whole time.
I would not have worked through school (again) if I didn’t have to. Obviously, if all I had to to was wake up and worry about school, classes would be cake. This is one of the biggest reasons that “the rich get richer”. As a full time student, managing a wide open schedule, I would have luxurious amounts of time and headspace to commit to classes. This hypothetical situation would also give me time to do unpaid internships while in school — which commonly ask for concurrent enrollment.
We should not have to make the choice of whether we want to go into debt, and work through college, or go deeper into debt, and concentrate more on schoolwork. This scenario differs depending on the person too, because some people don’t ever need to worry about the costs of college. The energy us working peasants have to expend on money jobs to pay for college can be invested on a more “enriching experience” by the kings and queens in their highrises.
There are some exciting recent developments in the world of affordable education, including the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program, Wisconsin Tuition Promise, CARES Act, and SAVE Plan, which I cover in episode #35 of Mentally Enabled. Thank you to everyone that came out to the portfolio show too! The opportunity in IT is exciting but I am still an artist. I’m excited to see what comes of this recent progress I’ve made in the world of education. Happy holidays!
