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October 22, 2013
If at first you don't succeed do the same thing only different.
Somewhere a Portuguese village is missing its idiot:For Fernando Mariano, a 26-year-old student from Porto, the situation is quite simply "scary". Mariano completed a course in acting at Portugal's leading drama school in 2008 and was initially able to find work. When the crisis hit in 2010, however, it all dried up. "It was all very sudden. The situation with culture in Portugal is very much based on subsidised companies and with the recession the government has cut them all. All my friends who are actors in Portugal are unemployed."Mariano moved to the UK two years ago, and made the decision to go back into education to improve his chances of finding employment here in the future. He is currently studying dance and musical theatre at the The University of East London's Urdang Academy. A PhD with your coffee? Barista serving your drink might be better educated than you are
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 22, 2013 10:11 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"Better educated"? In a 'discipline' I care nothing about, a system of study that has limited or no application to the real world?
Maybe they have prettier certificates, but the hyper-inflation devaluating of that diploma will kick in once the trillion-dollar education bubble bursts.
Why should I be impressed by the standard college graduate who is in excess of $100,000 in debt and scrambling to find a job that pays $25,000/yr?
Bill Buckley had it right: "I'd rather be governed by the first hundred names in the Boston phonebook than by the faculty of Harvard."
Posted by: Darkwater at October 22, 2013 11:25 AM
This is a pampered generation that has continuously been told that they are somehow entitled to a good life. The only things which count in that respect are hard work and good fortune. Reality eats self-esteem for breakfast.
Posted by: Darkwater at October 22, 2013 11:31 AM
Dance and musical theatre huh......[pause for thought]...... Yeah, that oughta do it.
Posted by: BillH at October 22, 2013 2:00 PM
If a culture is a car, Fernando is an option.
"I'd like that, but *does a calculation* not now, maybe next one."
Pity acting isn't part of the religion, he may then have gotten something off of the tithes of the faithful.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at October 23, 2013 6:47 PM