This week we’ll be featuring the last posts from our CBCampus ambassadors. They’re about to move on to that place you’ve all heard so much about: The Real World. So as they prepare to move on, we asked them for some final thoughts on what they learned during their time with us, both professionally and personally.
Morgan says…
Blogging, for example requires me to write up some of my thoughts, thoughts that will forever be attributable to my name. I had to learn confidence to feel comfortable with accepting all ridicule as well as praise that could come from posting my ideas on the Internet. Mostly, my boost in confidence came when I had to organize as many friends as possible to be in a CBcampus photo for a photo contest. They thought it was ridiculous, but with persistence and good humor I was able to make my friends go along. Even though I thought it would be like pulling teeth to secure answers for the various surveys that we had to give to career center staff, it was rather easy. The lesson learned is that people will generally help you out and you shouldn’t worry that they will shut you down. The closer the people are to you, they can also do bigger favors…
The economic times that we’re in have impacted my work and experience at CBcampus. The new economic challenges we face now and will face in the future are ideas that affect student employment. As students we are uniquely situated in a confusing spot where there are no jobs, but we constantly hear that our education will take us so much farther. Things will change though, times will get better. My CBcampus experience has impacted the way I understand the world around me, and I am very thankful of that.
For everything you just said, I have both known it and lived it before you have and am 48. If people want a better future, they have to stop partying and thinking the somebodya has to be “cool”, study case law and really work hard in Management as I have, and we need to talk about wages and how government can help with that too, because some of us have NEVER had friends to help us, we made it on our own– that is, we are SELF MADE citizens and NOBODY has EVER appreciated THAT. WE would like Internships because WE help, or I should say I help the community to the point that I was asked to run for 22nd District. I have the outstanding education and through service and common sense. I am the qualified and up unto Economics. However, there is a trend that poor-minded people who have had help from their parents and other people complain more than others of us who have always done more than our share and can’t get higher up the ladder due to the favors that others do for eachother, when some of us just have done and do our job and better than everybody else– But, THAT just wasn’t HIP enough. That’s why Bush was voted in, so that people could who wanted to, like the Dot Commers, try to get rich at everybody’s expense. I am not one of those either.
I still need the opportunity and the affirmative kinds of actions I need are those of equality instead of those for less justice, which is why I HAVE studied justice and do what I can in my neighborhood and local YMCA to make it a better neighborhood.
I appreciated your message. There are those of us who need a step up however, in getting closer to what we need in terms of just everyday experience– When Stanford students ruin and truncate business departments just because they don’t care about business and because they are spoiled and feel they have more options, such as destoys the lives of citizens like mine.
I cherish my experiences and those particularly work experiences because THOSE always WERE my credentials and as such, I DESERVE MORE UPWARDLY MOBILE OPPORTUNITIES instead of being relegated to Temp. game which I can tell you how it works and the “no guarantee” lies of those who have nothing but “get rich quick” schemes which inspired the $700 Billion dollar bail out as well as the 7 million dollar hacking/cracking crime of the technical 21st century revolution.
I don’t HACK because I’m not a hack. What I have worked to put together for myself in skills ability and gotten by suffering is the most valuable education I could have. At the very least, REAL employers should VALUE WHAT I have and TREAT it WITH THE RESPECT IT DESERVES and pay the wages which get closer to at least SOME form of the American Dream– THAT much, at least, I know I HAVE EARNED. I realize that THEY can see that too, which is why their sin remains– and they should go and learn this: We as a people and I myself, deserve “compassion, and not a sacrafice”.
Most Sincerely of you all
I can assure you and guarantee YOU.