I'm kind of not sure what kind of career you shoot for with a Political Science degree, though. I've looked at a lot of the textbooks I inherited from the original Monica, and I'm not really feeling a lot of interest. I'm not sure she did, either - there's a lot less yellow highlighter in them than in Emilia's and Katey's. Dad says that's not unusual, that working on the other side of this process, as a manager, it kind of didn't matter what you actually studied, that employers just wanted to make sure you were capable of handling challenges, and that for most graduates, specific majors really don't matter, unless you find the thing you really love through it. Razzie kind of takes it further, saying that employers don't care what you major in, just so long as you've got enough student loan debt to be afraid of quitting.
The thing is, everyone says that being a salesgirl is a dead end, but I really loved selling Dragon Adrenaline! I'm not saying I was a true believer in the product or anything, even if I did like some of the weird Chinese flavors, but it was really fun to travel to all the little stores, give out free samples, get to know the managers, all that stuff. There's a lot more sitting in the office at the school.
Maybe I should go for one of those pharma-girl jobs. It seems kind of intimidating - I'm not sure I could bluff my way through how effective drugs are with actual doctors - and it also seems like there would be a lot more travel, which means a car and not having Dad and Katey for help. And... Well, from what I gather, a lot of these girls are looking for ways to skim off the top or for husbands.
And I am really not looking for a husband! Sure, I've been Monica almost a year, but it's still really weird watching Katey make out with Omar, although at least he's being kind of cool about me noticing that another girl was staring at his buddy Rodrigo during our third date and finding an excuse to slip into the ladies' room and say that it wasn't going to work out so if she wanted to make her move in the next few minutes, I wouldn't actually be upset. Rodrigo is actually a pretty good guy, and maybe I wouldn't have been looking for an off-ramp if Katey and Dad hadn't both been going on about this being the sex date, but it all felt weird. Like, the first date was sort of a fun hang-out with Katey and Omar, then the second was a double feature at the NewYork Asian Film Festival and then talking at a bar afterward, but I wasn't exactly excited when he kissed me at the end of the night, and then on the third date, he was counting down or something. I enjoy hanging out with him but I feel like I'll enjoy hanging out with him a lot more if we run into each other a couple months from now and aren't thinking about whether this is going to get us laid or evaluating each other as potential lifetime partners.
Still, the money's really good in that business, and maybe that's the important thing to think of right now.
-Monica (or Rusty)
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As someone who has a degree in Political Science (granted, a doctorate), yeah, that's a field where getting a job in the field definitely requires a love for politics, policy, and/or the law. And also usually a post-secondary degree. If her degree came with any legal concentration maybe could swing paralegal work but that's probably going to require just as much bluffing as the pharma-girl job you're looking at.
As for the Rodrigo thing, like I said on your last blog post just got to take all this at your own pace. Everyone's libido and sexuality can very quite a bit, so if you're not interested you're not interested, nothing to be ashamed of. But uggh I never got the "the Xth date is the sex date" thing. I'd joke that's the mindset of a teen but, well, there's an irony in saying that considering your situation lol.
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