Valentine's Day

Yeah y'all knew it was coming, and just in time for Everywhere I go, I see commercials with the happy-ass couples celebrating their love on Valentines (also known as "only-women-should-get-presents") Day. The entire week, the only thing I hear is "This Valentine's Day, let her know how much she means to you. DeBeers." Roughly translated, it sounds a lot like, "honey, if you really love me, you'll financially ruin yourself for me." The lesson seems to be that ungratefulness should be rewarded with expensive combinations of metal and rock. Women hold the trump card here. All commercials are here to henpeck men into getting the women in their lives outrageously-priced gifts to show their love, without any real work on their part.

Exhibit A:



*Wife* "Happy Valentines Day Jason. I love you! "
*Whipped-ass Husband* "And I love you Sarah! Ok, it's your day! Whatever you want!"
*Thinks to himself* I really wish she'd teach that old pussy of hers some new tricks...*Heavy sigh*

I notice that commercials where women get men gifts are absent from the airwaves, however. And the only thing the man might get in return is the same...exact...vagina he's already accustomed to swimming in. It's not tightened up or dressed up any differently or anything like that. In some cases, he'll have to endure the same old head, fully equipped with the same old tricks, nothing to surprise him with! At all! Now I ask, is this fair? I'm not gonna even ask the women because I already know what y'all are gonna say...

Exhibit B:



A Diamond (and/or Sapphire) is forever...at least until her birthday, and your anniversary, and Christmas, and...

But what can a man really do? If he buys into this whole rip-off of a "holiday", he stands to get royally ass-raped for an untold sum of money. But if he doesn't, he could get cut off from the same cookie he had been biting on up to this point, but will stay financially intact...for the moment... Still, I haven't yet heard about what women plan to get their men to show their appreciation, but whatever... Debeers would have you to think that:

Exhibit C:



Apparently...

Well I say screw that, I'm not falling into that trap! My name (many of you should already know what is is by now) means fairness, and now I'm calling that in! If a woman wants me to express my love using a black card, what compensation will I get? Don't make me get like this:

Exhibit D:



That sounds about right...

I hate to be like that but I personally feel I'm worth as much effort as I expect women feel they're worth, so where's my adoration? My diamond rings, me being showered with love? Get that love game up ASAP! Seriously!

College Degrees

A few weeks back, I was watching this special on 20/20, and it was about finding what your monetary worth is and I got pretty pissed! All these people on the program had college degrees and all they had to show for them were jobs that pay $11.50 an hour and accumulated debt from taking out student loans. One woman had accumulated about $75,000 dollars of debt in attaining her apparently useful degree and hasn't been able to land a job in the 3 years since graduating. A man on the show said he had accrued at least $125,000 dollars in debt trying to get his degree.

Don't get me wrong, It's not like $11.50 is anything to sneeze at, but come on! Especially when you're constantly told by commercials that if you have a Bachelor's Degree, you'll make at least $500,000 dollars more in your lifetime than a person with just a high school education, it makes perfect sense at the time. And while that might be true, when you get out of school only to find out that you need to go back to school and get a Master's Degree to get the job is not a good look. All the while you're juggling all that aforementioned debt and are getting the feeling that you've just been ripped off. It's like putting your fingers in a Chinese finger trap, fighting it will only make it tighter!

Exhibit A:



This is what a diploma really means...

Jobs and schools of all kinds try to tell you that if you don't want your life to be a piece of crap, you need to go to school and get that advanced college degree, but when you don't get the job because you're not yet qualified, you become slightly annoyed. Finally, after you stop bitching about it, you go to school and get the degree they require only to then find out that you're now overqualified, and end up getting a job at Wal-Mart or some other job you could have gotten fresh out of high school with no experience, all the while becoming increasingly bitter. You then go through a cycle of assorted emotions (as illustrated below). First, a period of unmitigated rage, then despair starts to set in about possibly never getting a job, and that's where you start to unravel this lie.

Exhibit B:



The Job Depression cycle. Note the wild swings in a person's mood when they have hope for a better tomorrow, and the crushing defeat and anguish they feel as it's summarily snuffed out...

To be sure, people (who either have jobs or are otherwise financially independent) will either tell you things are going to be ok, or that you should be willing to work anywhere people are hiring at this point. Because of that statement and their indifferent attitude to your plight, now you're back at the first stage of the job despair cycle: blinding rage! Nevermind that you have to pay rent and you have a standard of life to maintain. You should get a crappy, low paying, halfassed job, accept your fate, and simply let your dreams and life's ambitions die. The thing about apartments is that the landlord expects to be paid on time every month, and are generally not trying to hear that because your job doesn't pay enough, you almost had the rent! You'll almost have a place to live too after that!

Consider that many CEO's and owners of companies make billions of dollars a year and never went to school at the college level! For example, Donald Trump. He's one of this planet's wealthiest and yet, he never went to college. School sounds like such a lie now, don't it? The way of the world now isn't what you know, but who. How else can you explain a certain ex-president graduating from Harvard University with a C average, when you can't graduate from there with any grade less than a B?

As it is with connections, it can be argued that those with high ambition need not to go to school anyway, because if people really want it, they'll stop at nothing to see their dreams realized. People with this mindset will probably see going to college as a waste of time and money, because their ambitious enough to make their dreams reality and not get a degree just to get a job that does not match and end up with an assload of bills to pay.

I understand that about a million folks who worked white collar jobs lost them in December alone, with 2 million losing their jobs since the beginning of this economic downturn. Just yesterday, I read about a company called Qimonda in Henrico County folding and cutting about 1,500jobs from its workforce. One of the job markets that have since grown is the blue collar sector, the part that those in office buildings look down on and turn their noses up at. Makes those hard-earned degrees all the more worth it huh?