So Will We Drink the Kool-Aid?

I’ve been thinking a lot the last week about putting all my eggs in one basket. I couldn’t really shake the convo from my mind.

Especially in thinking through how much rumblings of working full-time become a reality that everyone’s starting to face, I see how people my age, at institutions like the ones we attend, getting pulled towards taking up careers we acknowledge are antithetical to what we once saw as principles. My parents would always talk about (and I know many friends’ parents feel similarly) the point when people grow out of their politics, getting to a point where they accept life and responsibilities restrict the capacity for you to make a choice that requires you should pursue a career instead.

It almost feels like this point felt so distant for years, and yet it’s just immediately arrived this summer. It’s less than 12 months and we’re all gonna be done with undergrad. That part of your life that you had seemingly oriented your whole life (maybe for me growing up in Silicon Valley) is now all but over. There was no guidance, before this time unless you knew for certain where you were going, about how to pursue finding something you may be interested in. It’s all about orienting yourself ultimately towards the capitalist means of production (which is now really just the financialized system we live in). You will submit and will accept taking a career…