Very Sad That These College Grads Had to Defer Their Dreams of Destroying the Earth
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The pandemic has created an absolutely awful situation for recent college graduates, with many of them facing cancelled internships, withdrawn job offers, and the daily realities of living at home with their parents again rather than in their first apartments. And I feel bad for every single one of them, except for the subjects of a Sunday New York Times piece, young 20-somethings who are upset they had to defer their long-held dreams of destroying the Earth.
The students and grads featured in the story aspired to positions in the oil and gas industry, which has been disrupted by covid as well as by our hopes and dreams of still having a habitable planet in a few decades.
“We got a slap in the face, an entirely unforeseen situation that rocked our entire mind-set,” Sabrina Burns, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, told the Times. (I would also like to note that Burns told the Times she was inspired to pursue a career in the industry after hearing stories about women engineers servicing oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Big-time “hire more women guards” energy.)
“I have applied for every oil and gas position I’ve seen, like all my classmates, and nothing really has turned up,” she said. “I’m discouraged.”