An Essay on the Unpreparedness of the Average College Graduate

“You don’t seem to have any real work experience, I’m having trouble placing you.”  These were the words spoken to me by a career placement counselor.  At that point I began questioning the value of the previous five years of my life.  I was a college graduate, for goodness sakes, wasn’t that supposed to put me in a class above the rest? 

No.  Not anymore.  Because that ideology was pumped into my generation (yes I put myself into a different generation than today’s college freshmen, the end of a generation but a separate generation all the same) from childhood on, my sad little Bachelor’s degree comes a dime a dozen.  Having a college degree isn’t what it was when my parents were my age.  Today, even a Master’s degrees is teetering on the edge of not nearly enough.  This world desires Doctors, PhDs.  Are we looking at an impending design of an even higher level of education in the near future?