Does it strike anyone else as interesting that the more education you have the less control you have over your life? I'm thinking that there is some kind of direct correlation here. For example: your options are quite limited without a high-school degree (think McDonald's or unskilled labor here) and a diploma can surely set you on the track to success - but where does this end? Tech school seems to give options, but being trained in one thing means that you are making more money at that than anything else which kinda limits your options. College will again give you more options, but you have to pick a major which may or may not lead you into a specified field. After that it's on to grad school for humanities majors (unless you want to work as a secretary for the rest of your life) and the options for jobs begins to get smaller and smaller. Here we get into the territory where you don't even get to choose where you're going to live once you graduate because you have to follow the jobs like some pheasant-chasing bloodhound. And if you are fortunate enough to get one, you have to fight like a cat in a bathtub to keep it because tenure is some kind of magical cookie of joy. Oh, don't forget, once you're educated you're overqualified for a lot of jobs and can't get them anyways.

I don't know if I'm just getting bitter, but my future is looking pretty bleak - and all because I stayed in school. I'd like to see that on the public-education commercials "Don't go to school kids! It will ruin the best years of your life and you won't get anything out of it!" I wonder if we could get Football players to hide behind tree stumps in games of hide and seek for that one?