Been unemployed for a long time and brooding quietly in my room

[ChunkyZergling]

ChunkyZergling, what type of degree do you have and what is your major?

I have bachelor's degree in environmental studies: ecology from Binghamton University with a 3.2. I also have a graduate certificate in Conservation Biology from the Smithsonian-Masion School of Conservation Biology and worked in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Mammalogy.

 

[Robopredinator]

I think a lot of people look down on trade schools as if it's not prestigious like going to college. Most of the people I know that skipped college and learned a trade are doing just fine and are generally better off since they don't have a ton of debt. Not to say college isn't worth it, but depending on what you plan to do for a living, it's not for everyone. I'm so disgusted by the college system in America for becoming too much of a business. Everything is about making money. Tuition, housing, books--they're all way overpriced for what you actually get out of them. Getting financial aid for school is an even bigger racket with ridiculous interest rates and fees that guarantee you'll spend a couple decades paying them off. It's starting college kids off behind the 8-ball and not enough is done to make sure those kids will get jobs, much less jobs that will pay them enough to live comfortably and still pay off their debt.

Excellent post!

Things become so much clearer after college as the rose-colored glasses come off. I'm also applying for occupational and physical therapy (OT and PT respectively) schools and I'm upset at how we're leeched on by educational institutions. My undergraduate school has received around $40K from a bank - that has so generously attached a disgusting interest rate - and yet each record of my transcript would set me back $20 still? I won't even get into the $150+ textbooks that are "revised" each year which renders the previous year's edition worthless. It's hilarious when the school sends you mail asking for donations right after you graduated.

I've applied to several OT schools and it all cost me $560 which feels even worse when it was all for waste being that I didn't get in. Between the OT applications, GRE exams, transcript requests and other miscellaneous necessities when applying for higher education, I've easily added another $1K to my debt.

 

[WWEJedi]

You know... the more I re-read this all over... the bigger my smile gets. Take away the stuff about what matters and what doesn't for a minute and focus on what I said about my hopeful future. Of how I want to try to help people, make a difference, of what I expect of myself and where I want to go. Just because your plans crumbled before your eyes and the dreams you had are gone... doesn't give you a right to attempt to extinguish the passion of another in what they hope to reach and attain. After the long line of people who said life doesn't work that way.... I am going to make it work the way I want it to work and achieve what I want to achieve. I won't let the silly little words spoken by the few potentially miss-guided people here to change my perceptions of what I think deep down. Deep down, when I am 40 and look at myself in the mirror and see someone just as ordinary, just as regular, as everyone else doing a job where millions and millions do.... knowing that I will die and the only thing passed on will be cash and memories to the my next generation with my name mentioned in the paper at birth and death... I won't be happy... I want something more. Maybe it is the only child syndrome that was instilled into me of "your special" or maybe it is the drive in me to be more than I know I can be and to prove every single person in my life who gave up on me and wrote me off as being wrong. Call me weird, call me sad, call me troubled, call me a lunatic.... call me whatever you want.... laugh while your reading this or tip your cap saying a sarcastic "good luck," call me a fame seeking, power luster, psychopath. Some of you wanted me to be "real," so here it was. If you can't even appreciate someone chasing something they want.... to be something more.... to help..... welp..... the day dreamers stop dreaming is when the world dies.

Thanks for the motivation, because deep down,






I know I will make it.



Goodbye Sideshow Freaks, maybe one day I will be back.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

Excellent post!

Things become so much clearer after college as the rose-colored glasses come off. I'm also applying for occupational and physical therapy (OT and PT respectively) schools and I'm upset at how we're leeched on by educational institutions. My undergraduate school has received around $40K from a bank - that has so generously attached a disgusting interest rate - and yet each record of my transcript would set me back $20 still? I won't even get into the $150+ textbooks that are "revised" each year which renders the previous year's edition worthless. It's hilarious when the school sends you mail asking for donations right after you graduated.

I've applied to several OT schools and it all cost me $560 which feels even worse when it was all for waste being that I didn't get in. Between the OT applications, GRE exams, transcript requests and other miscellaneous necessities when applying for higher education, I've easily added another $1K to my debt.

Me too. I tried to get in a master's OT program. I applied to about 5 or 6 CUNY's. They said if in the prerequisites you get a 3.0 GPA and do well in anatomy and physiology I & 2, you're in. In 2009 I took 20 credits, having a 3.8 GPA. In A&P 1 & 2 I got 2 A's. I also had 4 internships, at a: inpatient, outpatient (hand and shoulder), geriatric, and pediatric occupational therapy clinics. 40 hours at each place. Every school rejected me.

I went to get a certified occupational therapy assistant degree at mercy college. It is a fake college designed to take people's money and give them nothing. I left after a year.

I just applied to a position for $30,000/yr as an occupational therapy aid and didn't get the position because I didn't have enough experience.

They said I could be an occupational therap aide assistant, driving a shuttle and moving patients into chairs for$11/hr for the aides to work on, then the certified occoputional therapy assistants, then the occupational therapists, then the doctors.

That's what prompted me to make this post. I was nice because it was an interview but when the OT said I didn't have enough experience I should have told her to go **** herself. REALLY wish I did.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

There are about 300 students accepted a year into OT masters programs in NYC and about 10,000 applying. You cannot get in any way you can think of.

 

[hoodonit00]

You know... the more I re-read this all over... the bigger my smile gets. Take away the stuff about what matters and what doesn't for a minute and focus on what I said about my hopeful future. Of how I want to try to help people, make a difference, of what I expect of myself and where I want to go. Just because your plans crumbled before your eyes and the dreams you had are gone... doesn't give you a right to attempt to extinguish the passion of another in what they hope to reach and attain. After the long line of people who said life doesn't work that way.... I am going to make it work the way I want it to work and achieve what I want to achieve. I won't let the silly little words spoken by the few potentially miss-guided people here to change my perceptions of what I think deep down. Deep down, when I am 40 and look at myself in the mirror and see someone just as ordinary, just as regular, as everyone else doing a job where millions and millions do.... knowing that I will die and the only thing passed on will be cash and memories to the my next generation with my name mentioned in the paper at birth and death... I won't be happy... I want something more. Maybe it is the only child syndrome that was instilled into me of "your special" or maybe it is the drive in me to be more than I know I can be and to prove every single person in my life who gave up on me and wrote me off as being wrong. Call me weird, call me sad, call me troubled, call me a lunatic.... call me whatever you want.... laugh while your reading this or tip your cap saying a sarcastic "good luck," call me a fame seeking, power luster, psychopath. Some of you wanted me to be "real," so here it was. If you can't even appreciate someone chasing something they want.... to be something more.... to help..... welp..... the day dreamers stop dreaming is when the world dies.

Thanks for the motivation, because deep down,






I know I will make it.



Goodbye Sideshow Freaks, maybe one day I will be back.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

You know... the more I re-read this all over... the bigger my smile gets. Take away the stuff about what matters and what doesn't for a minute and focus on what I said about my hopeful future. Of how I want to try to help people, make a difference, of what I expect of myself and where I want to go. Just because your plans crumbled before your eyes and the dreams you had are gone... doesn't give you a right to attempt to extinguish the passion of another in what they hope to reach and attain. After the long line of people who said life doesn't work that way.... I am going to make it work the way I want it to work and achieve what I want to achieve. I won't let the silly little words spoken by the few potentially miss-guided people here to change my perceptions of what I think deep down. Deep down, when I am 40 and look at myself in the mirror and see someone just as ordinary, just as regular, as everyone else doing a job where millions and millions do.... knowing that I will die and the only thing passed on will be cash and memories to the my next generation with my name mentioned in the paper at birth and death... I won't be happy... I want something more. Maybe it is the only child syndrome that was instilled into me of "your special" or maybe it is the drive in me to be more than I know I can be and to prove every single person in my life who gave up on me and wrote me off as being wrong. Call me weird, call me sad, call me troubled, call me a lunatic.... call me whatever you want.... laugh while your reading this or tip your cap saying a sarcastic "good luck," call me a fame seeking, power luster, psychopath. Some of you wanted me to be "real," so here it was. If you can't even appreciate someone chasing something they want.... to be something more.... to help..... welp..... the day dreamers stop dreaming is when the world dies.

Thanks for the motivation, because deep down,






I know I will make it.



Goodbye Sideshow Freaks, maybe one day I will be back.

Can we ban this guy?

 

[ali032373]

I have bachelor's degree in environmental studies: ecology from Binghamton University with a 3.2. I also have a graduate certificate in Conservation Biology from the Smithsonian-Masion School of Conservation Biology and worked in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Mammalogy.

Very impressive stuff. You have a background you dont see too often. Most folks want to major in economics or govt to go to business school or law school. But i think youreducation/ skill set is better suited to a rural environmnet. I think i saw that you live in Nyc. A move might be beneficial to your career.

 

[devilof76]

It's up to you to give your work meaning and make it matter, not the other way round.

Society and history are not standards of a life's worth.

I'm not special, not yet. You aren't special either.

If by special, you mean unique, then we all are, absolutely, automatically, with no effort required. If by special, you mean better than most people, you're making the mistake of valuing your life in relation to lives that are not your own. Why would other people's lives be a valid standard by which to rate yours?

 

[Shawpaw]

Wwe reminds me of Trump. Gifted everything from the start. But completely out of touch on his comments and has never had to fail.

I'll say this: I'm so proud of you guys. There's been such great advice and dialogue. The true sign of someone who is naïve, is when said person is unable to understand heartfelt messages like GeneralZodLives and the Dr have suggested. Many, many others have added great points, empathy and understanding. Yet, WWEJedi has missed the point.

He is driven by power. Telling him that he can't do something further drives him into himself. I fear the outcome when that day comes that things don't work out for him. It comes for us all. We are not unique beings. Our lives are merely specks in the greater cosmos. We all try to find meaning in life. But when we overdo it to the point of actually believing we are "special," we are setting ourselves to fall from a higher point.

 

[Darth Madden]

He reminds me of the guy in Good Will Hunting who is hitting on Skylar in the bar then makes fun of Ben and Will comes over and puts him in his place. The guy is book smart but not life smart.

 

[Robopredinator]

There are about 300 students accepted a year into OT masters programs in NYC and about 10,000 applying. You cannot get in any way you can think of.

That is one of the problems living in a big city. I live in Chicago and know how competitive it is. UIC offers a MOT (and a Doctorate's too I think) in OT but since it is an internationally-known school, I competing not only with Chicago-area residents but those from Wisconsin, the rest of the country and students overseas. Be sure to apply to smaller schools as it doesn't matter where you get your degree from as long as it is accredited.

Me too. I tried to get in a master's OT program. I applied to about 5 or 6 CUNY's. They said if in the prerequisites you get a 3.0 GPA and do well in anatomy and physiology I & 2, you're in. In 2009 I took 20 credits, having a 3.8 GPA. In A&P 1 & 2 I got 2 A's. I also had 4 internships, at a: inpatient, outpatient (hand and shoulder), geriatric, and pediatric occupational therapy clinics. 40 hours at each place. Every school rejected me.

I went to get a certified occupational therapy assistant degree at mercy college. It is a fake college designed to take people's money and give them nothing. I left after a year.

I just applied to a position for $30,000/yr as an occupational therapy aid and didn't get the position because I didn't have enough experience.

They said I could be an occupational therap aide assistant, driving a shuttle and moving patients into chairs for$11/hr for the aides to work on, then the certified occoputional therapy assistants, then the occupational therapists, then the doctors.

That's what prompted me to make this post. I was nice because it was an interview but when the OT said I didn't have enough experience I should have told her to go **** herself. REALLY wish I did.

I'm in the same boat. Since this thread has followed a "not all things go according to plan" theme - for the betterment of WWEJEDI - I'd like to add to that theme. My plan was to become an occupational/physical therapist and obtaining a BA in Movement Science would further help my goal with the program's extensive science and math-based prerequisites. Not getting into any of the OT programs is a huge blow being that my degree is relatively useless.

OT and PT clinics always use ambiguous job titles. I was looking at becoming a physical therapy tech but it's just someone who folds towels and wipes down after each patient. It also paid around $10/hr.

I've been told numerous things about GPA's and now I'm lead to believe it is dependent on each program's deciding factors. Some will pay more attention to your science and math prerequisites, some will heavily factor in the last 60 prerequisites and so on. But given that you're GPA looks OK, and you've done all of your internships, what does the rest of your application look like? How's your GRE scores, volunteer work, experiences, letter of recommendations and personal essays?

 

[ChunkyZergling]

[video]https://www.hulu.com/watch/4183[/video]

"In a van down by the river."

 

[ChunkyZergling]

That is one of the problems living in a big city. I live in Chicago and know how competitive it is. UIC offers a MOT (and a Doctorate's too I think) in OT but since it is an internationally-known school, I competing not only with Chicago-area residents but those from Wisconsin, the rest of the country and students overseas. Be sure to apply to smaller schools as it doesn't matter where you get your degree from as long as it is accredited.



I'm in the same boat. Since this thread has followed a "not all things go according to plan" theme - for the betterment of WWEJEDI - I'd like to add to that theme. My plan was to become an occupational/physical therapist and obtaining a BA in Movement Science would further help my goal with the program's extensive science and math-based prerequisites. Not getting into any of the OT programs is a huge blow being that my degree is relatively useless.

OT and PT clinics always use ambiguous job titles. I was looking at becoming a physical therapy tech but it's just someone who folds towels and wipes down after each patient. It also paid around $10/hr.

I've been told numerous things about GPA's and now I'm lead to believe it is dependent on each program's deciding factors. Some will pay more attention to your science and math prerequisites, some will heavily factor in the last 60 prerequisites and so on. But given that you're GPA looks OK, and you've done all of your internships, what does the rest of your application look like? How's your GRE scores, volunteer work, experiences, letter of recommendations and personal essays?

Everything looked great. I had 3 letters of recommendation, two from occupational therapists and one from my A&P professor. GRE isn't required for occupational therapy masters programs. Thanks for asking though.

 

[Robopredinator]

I don't frequent these boards too often. What's up with WWEJedi? I'm reading that he is a troll that has been banned before? Sounded like an idealist unwilling to listen from the experienced realists.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

He reminds me of the guy in Good Will Hunting who is hitting on Skylar in the bar then makes fun of Ben and Will comes over and puts him in his place. The guy is book smart but not life smart.

Wait are you implying WWEJEDI is book smart? Please don't do that.

 

[Robopredinator]

Everything looked great. I had 3 letters of recommendation, two from occupational therapists and one from my A&P professor. GRE isn't required for occupational therapy masters programs. Thanks for asking though.

That is very odd. The OT programs around me require GRE scores like UIC and Midwestern. I wonder why NY doesn't apply these same standards.

https://ahs.uic.edu/ot/academics/ms/howtoapply/admissioncriteria/

 

[316what]

Just wait until that first prospective employer conducts a background check on Wee and finds all of his posts here.


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[Mr. Green]

Just wait until that first prospective employer conducts a background check on Wee and finds all of his posts here.


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Eh, that will be years from now, since he barely started school. But then again, he might be posting the same mentality years from now as well, lol.

 

[Xenoburger_]

Thanks for the motivation, because deep down,






I know I will make it.