Durch - Through

Through studying hard at school, it’s very possible to land a spot in a decent university on a good course. The ultimate aim being attaining that coveted bachelors degree and a very well-paid job with wonderful career prospects and the promise of a very comfortable life. Having graduated over four years ago, my view on this have changed considerably. Now a cynic would probably point out that I’m only saying this because I haven’t got that amazingly well-paid job and all those career prospects, but to them I say a hearty fuck you. I think going to university was an essential experience less for the education, and for more for the growing up, the frugal lifestyle and the people you meet. I think so many people spend so long studying for something they’re not passionate about, with a view to entering a career that will bore the shit out of them and leave them returning home from work every night quite wealthy, but ultimately feeling empty and unfulfilled. I’m a strong believer that happiness is far, far more important in life than being rich. Once you learn to live a simple existence without the need for so much of the pointless consumerist shit, life becomes so much better! Given I’m quite happy saying this because of the UK’s amazing student loan system, whereby I only have to pay it all off once I’m earning a certain threshold - were an American graduate, I’d be utterly screwed and be forced to drop this bohemian, hippy-fuck attitude in an instant. Even I’d have a hard time justifying $100,000 of college to work as a projectionist. But generally I’m through with everyone saying stuff like “Andrew, time to get a real job!”. You know what? I’m happy and I’ll do whatever the fuck I like with my life, so piss off and get back to your stressful life working for the man, monkey boy! Meanwhile I’ll leave my movies and the office and write vaguely humorous rants about randomly-selected German-word topics. Usually for more vaguely humorous than this, I might add!