Lack of money is a common trait of gradproles

    I guess instead of fiddling around some more, I'll finally start explaining what I mean by "gradproles". One trait that many of us gradproles share is a (hopefully) temporary form of poverty. Many of us may have grown up spoiled. Our parents gave us everything we needed and many things we wanted. That may not be the case for some gradproles, I'm sure. You can comment to tell me if I'm wrong. I bet that almost all of us, though, whether we grew up with silver spoons or not, were expecting something better after graduating from college.  We did not expect to end up joining the ranks of the proletariat, or proles. At least not for any extended period of time. I'll explain my own situation further in future posts, but the short version is: my Bachelor's degree is in Fine Arts (that is, painting, drawing, etc.). That may tell many of you a lot already. So, here I am, making less than $30K at a dull job, surrounded by high school grads that get on my nerves all day long talking about stupid stuff. My solution is to go to grad school, get trained for a real professional job in accounting and kiss this hellhole goodbye. That solution is in progress right now, I'm in school in the evenings. But I still have to suffer for about 2 more years. I have to stay with the company I work for because they are paying for my tuition. I can transfer within the company but I haven't found any appropriate positions in my city even though I check the job postings daily.
    All this artificially induced poverty can be stressful, even downright depressing. I went through a mild bout of depression back in 2004 when I had 2 jobs, including one at UPS that started at 3 in the morning. I just thought about that time again when I found this page through Seed Magazine. The page is a joke, but seriously, if someone had given me a million dollars at that time I would have snapped right out of that depression. What finally got me out of depression is I got a regular 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM job, and after another year, with a little assistance from my mom and by deferring my student loans while in school, I was able to cut down to just one job. So anyway, my obvious point is, money goes a very long way toward securing a gradprole's happiness and sanity. I guess I'll end up posting about it frequently.