About a year ago, I was forced to drop out of college because I couldn't handle the pressure of professors in my face pushing me to succeed and it was affecting my health. Senior design was especially bad, because they interfered too much in your life and tried to make us into overacheivers (the academic type). Since I had earned a BS in biology a year before this when I had the hope that I could perhaps work on biotechnology (which I find so fascinating), I decided to go back home and live and work on my family farm. That only requires 15 hours per week and because I had problems getting health insurance, I was able to by some miracle get an engineering-related position with some actual benefits. I loved this because I finally felt adequate compared to all of my former classmates, who now have awesome jobs because the school cared about them. However, the pay was just under half of what engineers make. They say it's because I don't have an engineering degree.
2007-05-17
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