I don’t want to sound like a provocateur (provocatrice?), or like an ingrate, but sometimes when I think about happenings in the field I work in, I can’t help but feel that we, the students, are never gonna achieve anything until all the old people retire.
It’s nothing against old people in general. Just these old people, in my profession.
And I’m not saying they’re completely useless. They still have plenty of good in them, for certain things (many things, even). It’s more about the attitude they have: “This is how we’ve done it before, so there’s no other way to do it.”
Well, no. Times change, and these days, times change drastically.
Don’t mind me. This is the characteristic impatience of youth speaking. Like, go away, old people, and let us do our thing, because it’s better than what you all have now.
And of course that’s not fair. Without those old people we wouldn’t have ANYTHING to work with, to speak of.
I guess what I mean is more like, okay, old people, good job and stuff. But it’s time to go, the fat lady has filed for social security, and we have some ideas brewing that we’d really like to try, because we think they’ll do some good.
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*GASP!*
SACRILEGE!