Saturday, March 22, 2008

Career Counseling for idiots

So I was getting my hair cut today, and I heard the stupidest thing in the world.

The kid sitting behind me was a high school student, who was having the Fantastic Sams' stylists help him pick classes for his senior year.

Now far be it from me to judge someone's choices, but I don't think that having someone who works with HAIR at a SHITTY HAIR SALON help you with your class choices is a good move.

There are many things I trust hair professionals on. Should I go with a 2 or a 3 on the sides? Is forming cream right for me? Should I die my hair brown? But picking between stats and pre-calc is not something I'm going to turn to my stylist for.

The more I hear situations like this, the happier I am that my parents are both intelligent and that I can turn to my trusted friends for advice. The people you get advice from are the people you will one day emulate.

So thank god that I can turn to a CEO, a master's in speech pathology and two of the best writers in the country for advice. Oh yeah, and then there's the smartest man in the universe (just ask his facebook group.)

Meanwhile, I just hope that high school kid does well in algebra. It'll help him when he's working as a fry-making technician with a degree from Hamburger U next year...

2 comments:

Kim & Dic said...

let's not diss Hamburger U ..I hear the benefits are great there and you get a lifetime supply of canola oil when you graduate...now that is something that makes me wet devin, even more so than yogurt express ...canola oil...i dont know what i mean by that exactly but it sounded good in my head.

Devin said...

Oh Kim,
I'm not gonna lie, Canola Oil might be an overlooked (if extremely weird) personal lubricant...