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  • #73195
    Meadow
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    Hello:
    I recruited for a School of Public Health for years and I feel incredibly guilty about it. There are no jobs and now all of those students are saddled with debt. I have wasted my life when I really wanted to be an occupational therapist for the last 15 years. I feel so lost and guilty. Does anyone have encouragement for me?

    #73206
    Inky
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    Hi meadow,

    Imagine how all the art history professors feel!

    But seriously, if anything, one of them will become a Public Health recruiter. Or even the Surgeon General. Or president of the school. I would imagine in this day and age the students, and the parents often footing the bill, are able, or do, see with both eyes open.

    And how many people do you know have a job directly connected to their school or major?

    They will get an education in something, and that in itself is worth it, if that’s what you want to study.

    You did not waste your life. You learned how to connect with people and use your speaking skills. Pretty good skills to have for an occupational therapist!

    Inky

    #73242
    Will
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    You don’t have to carry the guilt of all those students and all that debt. It’s not on your shoulders. That guilt belongs to the school, to the students themselves and their advisors and parents, to the system that drives people to pursue further education, any kind of further education, to the culture, and the banks, and more besides. They can all help you carry that guilt, and once you realise that you played a tiny role, perhaps it won’t feel so crushing.

    Guilt, like pride, grows out of an overblown sense of one’s own importance. Ease up on that: it’s not on you. You learned about what you don’t want to do with your life, and today you can choose something else. How wonderful.

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