where do I go from here?
Well it's offical, Wayne state, Cornell, Stanford, and many others have either bumped their labor program to graduate level, post grad cert., or wiped it out completely. I sit here stupified looking at the screen not believing my eyes. How can this happen? did our grandparents not shed their blood so that we are able to enjoy the 8 hour day, women in the workplace, benefits, child labor laws. Do none of these things matter or allow anyone to hold them dear? Have the intellectuals lost faith in my abilty to overcome the corporate obsticles? do I call all my labor championing activists and have them take arms if their own left wing is broken so much to allow this to happen? what would happen if they do know what is going on? my heart and core are crumbling at this hour, so lost and pulled in so many directions. I am faced with the question of what route my education will take, if God truly willed me to do this work, and if so what I am supposed to do in faced with this crisis. I am angry that the board would let my major disappear. I am agry that no one caused a fuss about this happening. I am lost as far as my direction. I have prayed and yet I'm still without answers. My heart is so heavy. If I continue on and take peace and conflict studies, I will know how to mediate conflicts but will my future employers take one look at my resume and think of me not taking my education serious, thinking this major as only a whimsicle left rant personified onto a degree? I don't imagine to be taken so seriously as I am in the board room if this is all I bring to the table. I see myself them taking political science as a major, spending my days fighting on capitol hill going no where and having to resort to dirty politics to feed my family. I don't imagine getting far at the negotiation table with a political science degree and a co-major if peace and conflict studies. I feel so lost and without clear vision as to whom I should speak with regaurding all of this.