My first rant

I'm almost done with school and I'm facing the job market during a war (come on people it's still a war), over publication of global extremist, social and governmental failure, childish politics, corruption of environmental policies and laws as a result of corporations and bureaucracy, the over harvesting of our oceans resources and for that matter all resources, the rapid depletion of our sole source of energy, the changing global climate (who cares who did it it's happening), the dollar being at its lowest value since I've been in college, and the return of retired adults to the same job marked I’m trying to enter, but I have a felling that my situation is no different then any other national melt down that generations before me have faced; to me the only difference is that those older generations are looking to mine to solve these problems, which will be problematic since my generation has now been given the title generation “I” instead of its old title generation “Y” because we are self involved with our ipods and myspace, I have this feeling that generation “I” will be a big let down when it comes to actually doing something and solving problems.

Really I have no need to worry about getting a job even after factoring in all of the above because with a major in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection, there will be no shortage of work for me.


Some fun facts about generation “Y” provided by Wikipedia:

“Generation Y has a nearly intimate connection to technology. In their 2007 book, Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know About Today's Students, Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa[17] found that in a survey of 7,705 college students in the US:”

* 97% own a computer
* 97% have downloaded music and other media using peer-to-peer file sharing
* 94% own a cell phone
* 76% use instant messaging and social networking sites
* 66.6% of college students have a Facebook profile.[18]
* 60% own some type of portable music and/or video device such as an iPod
* 49% regularly download music and other media using peer-to-peer file sharing
* 34% use websites as their primary source of news
* 28% author a blog and 44% read blogs (this now includes me)
* 15% of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7 days a week

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