Jobs, College and "Shop Class as Soulcraft"

This week we read “Shop Class as Soulcraft”, which made me think about the relationship between having a job and having a college education. The character in this work of literature thinks of himself above other people because of his qualifications (master’s degree). The author, Matthew Crawford, explores the idea that people let education put them into an identity and say that their degree is the reason they took that job. In modern times the job world is very tough, my uncle lost his job for several months and despite the fact he is highly intelligent and graduated from Berkley, he still was jobless for quite some time. Situations like these make scared for the real job world, yet they also force me to think, “What do I really want to do when I get older?” I think this is a vital question that everyone should think about because if one is doing what they like to do, then there will be no situations of hate towards ones job discussed in “Shop Class as Soulcraft”, or characters like Bartleby in “Bartleby the Scrivener”.