Got a letter in the mail.
Alumni directory.
I called to update my information.
And then the questions started coming, what is your current career headline?
(I could say customer service expert, which doesn't say much, or say computer programmer but I haven't done that in 8 years)
837: Let's leave that blank
What's your current occupation
(Driving Chinese making $17 an hour and stocking overnight at Price Chopper...
But do I want to put that in a college directory)
Let's leave that one blank for now
...
well we have a beautiful directory with this perk that perk and the other perk, for a tax-deductible contribution of $25 and 2 easy payments of $169
*click*
Seriously, I think I could do quite well not thinking about my college degree.
Everyone asks, why aren't you in the computer field... Life happens and some of my skills are in programming languages and tools that are two decades-old.
I graduated summa cum laude from my college in the class of 2000, and now I'm making more doing two jobs and none of them require even a high school degree, than I ever did as a computer programmer working 40 hours a week with occasional business trips.
I occasionally toyed with the idea of pointing out to the computer science math and physics department of my college that one of their alumni is a occasional contributor to a feature on one of the world's most popular blogs. https://fivethirtyeight.com/?s=Steven+pratt
But then there'd be conversations like the one at the top of this page to make me go, nah.
The glory days are gone.
