When people ask, this parent is embarrassed to admit college-grad son works as a bartender.
My son is a college graduate with a job as a bartender. I get embarrassed telling people what he does when they ask. Help me.send me your questions hereHalf the people you tell will envy him, 100 percent won’t care as much as you do, the slim minority who judge him as beneath them are jerks — and anyone who stops a moment to think about it knows that a college degree isn’t about getting a so-called professional job.
It is about learning how to think critically and how to be part of a diverse and interesting community and how to challenge oneself. All of these are available outside the college experience, obviously — plus people can get through college successfully while achieving zero mind-expansion — but mind-expansion is in fact the commonly accepted point of an education.Being embarrassed just tells people you don’t get this.
People are weird. This is their weird. Roll with it. Assure yourself they are thanking you deeply in their hearts — but can’t say it aloud because they come from a land where saying thank you is punishable by life sentences to tinny music and unflattering haircuts.At least they are equal about it. Mine thank only my husband, even when I am the one handing over the credit card for dinner.My husband and I have become friends with another couple over the past year.
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