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Unfortunately, I&#8217;m still unable to intercept the mail so my dad always sees it first.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dad: Why are you getting mail from [insert name of local community college]?<br \/>\nMe: I applied there.<br \/>\nD: <em>long pause<\/em>. What program?<br \/>\nM: Their 4 year nursing program.<br \/>\nD: <em>longer pause, I can practically see the wheels churning inside of his head<\/em>. Is it the same program as at [insert name of big university\/the one that I attend]?<br \/>\nM: Yes.<br \/>\nD: <em>hands over the envelope, finally<\/em>. Okay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because even nearly 5 years after I graduated from high school and even after he even <em>admitted<\/em> that trades was an &#8220;appropriate&#8221; career choice, he still has a problem with smaller schools, or not internationally recognized institutions, even if they&#8217;re public, government funded &amp; approved schools.<\/p>\n<p>My sister J started school this week. She graduated from said Big University in either 2006 and is just going back to school now <em>for a trades program<\/em>. Granted, it&#8217;s a medical-relate program, so it&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s becoming a mechanic. But J is the Golden Child\u2122 and can never do anything wrong. So because she applied (and was accepted into) a trades program, suddenly trades is the <strong>Best Thing Ever<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And my father had the nerve to ask me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D: Why didn&#8217;t you go into trades as well?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, dad, maybe it&#8217;s because you spent the first 17 years of my life telling me that I need to go to university and get a degree <em>because it&#8217;s what I&#8217;m fucking supposed to do<\/em>. That and I get to live rent-free at home provided I stay in school, so it was kind of no brainer. But I have friends who graduated on time (unlike me) and are woefully unemployed. A friend of my sister&#8217;s has been out of university since 2006 and <em>just<\/em> got a full-time job in her field (she has an education degree and spent 5 years being a substitute teacher, filling in when people were sick or on maternity leave and having very uncertain employment). Having a Bachelors, regardless of <em>what<\/em> it is in doesn&#8217;t mean a whole lot these days. Mostly because a lot of people have a Bachelors degree. Which is really depressing to think about, considering I&#8217;ll be graduating with one at the end of May. And it&#8217;s going to be <em>fantastic<\/em>. The word &#8220;Science&#8221; will be mentioned on that piece of paper 4 times in my degree title. Not because I wanted them to emphasize how much I love science, but because of what my program was. (A lot of science.)<\/p>\n<p>But really. Having my dad tell me <em>when I&#8217;m 9 credits away from finishing my BSc<\/em> that I should have gone into some sort of trades instead? Like a knife through the heart. Maybe he should have been pushing that for the first 17 years of my life instead. Or maybe he should just keep his opinions to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of mail lately. Some of it was solicited (TEXTBOOKS!!#$%!) and others was not (dear playhouse that I purchased musical tickets from you 2 years ago, you&#8217;d think because I haven&#8217;t bought tickets in 2 years, that would be a hint to stop wasting paper). 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