so i dont know how i existed the past few years without 30 rock. someone loaned us season 1 when sibby was 8 weeks old and we have loved every second of this show....we just started season 4. anyways, all of the characters are fantastic but of course kenneth is special. kenneth, supposedly from a pig farm in stone mountain (guess the writers had not actually been anywhere near stone mountain when they pulled that name out of a hat...that accent is much more rabun county and stone mountain was possibly a small town 60 years ago, before it was swallowed into atlanta-sprawl...anyways!)
so last night's episode gave kenneth the line "i feel as useless as a mom's college degree". benson and i both burst out laughing, har har, but in a way, i have been questioning the usefulness of my college degrees for the past few years. what am i going to do with them? was there a point to it...especially the last masters which required a student loan? my degrees were useless before i became a stay at home mom (ba in african history, swahili and sociology, masters in public health, masters in social studies education). i got into high school history at the wrong time and only ended up finding a job for one semester. the underwater basket weaving joke got old in undergrad...but i guess there was a ring of truth to it.
there is no answer here....just pontificating. of course, i would not have met benson, i would not be even a tenth of as interesting, i would not have acquired the research skills i really honed writing 3 different theses, i would not have made certain friends, traveled to tanzania, become as interested in world affairs, etc. if i could do it all over again, i would not change my path...but is that vanity? i have found my calling in being a mom and hope to have many more children before i return the working world. right now speaking swahili, or understanding public health research or knowing how to manage a high school classroom might be about as useless as a mom's college degree for me.
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