Mmm…sometimes I am glad I went to college. But, then, there are days like today – when I am forced to ponder “Could I have done this job without a degree?”
I have been asked to unzip hundreds of freezer-sized zip lock baggies. They come zipped… and I have been deemed capable of unzipping them.
I think there is a greater purpose for these bags – and I am just preparing them for their ultimate destiny.
Perhaps they will one day contain some pertinent supply management information or maybe they will be filled with rice to feed orphans. I don’t know. All I have been asked to do is sit here and unzip them, fold them and pass them along. My thumbs kind of hurt. But I must press on.
There could be a great spiritual parallel to this… like he who is faithful in preparing Ziplocs for usage will one day be entrusted with something bigger. We will see.
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Hmm, the ziplocs. The unending question of whether or not your 4+ (for me at least) years of college have prepared you for such a task. Could you have succeeded at this without the knowledge of economics, literature, algebra, etc? No one could know for sure. The 1000's of dollars that you are still paying off - was it worth it? I think that we will never be sure whether it was a waste of time and money - maybe you would not be as quick at opening the ziplocs without the practice of turning pages in a book for class or typing on a computer. Maybe these seemingly mundane tasks have made your fingers more nimble and thus have given you the advantage over non-college grads.
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