No One Told Me Life Was Gonna Be This Way

Becoming a grown up is not as dramatic of a transition as I imagined it would be. I imagined a coming to age experience with a fantastic introduction to all the new, added responsibilities. Its not like I was expecting to receive a step-by-step instructions manual with precise protocols and pretty pictures!

Instead I received a credit card application in the mail, a student loan, an unexperienced salary and an invitation to go forth and reproduce. TV made it look so easy. All life's lessons were acted out over coffee with 5 friends. I guess 29.5% APR is not a valuable lesson to be learned in TVland.

                                                      10 Things I DIDN'T Learn from TV

1. In order to pay for coffee you have to have money

2. In order to have money to pay for coffee you have to have a job

3. In order to have a successful, high paying career you have to go to college

4. Being an entrepreneur doesn't always pay well

5. Most work offices are not the size of studio apartments 

6. Water, gas, and electricity are not free

7. Credit cards charge interest

8. APR is NOT just short for April

9. ALWAYS read the fine print before you sign something

10. Smoking causes cancer and premature birth

If TV did teach these things I guarantee TV ratings would not be proportional to childhood obesity and college students wouldn't have to file bankruptcy straight out of college. But, I probably wouldn't have watched it.