How hard can it be?

I don’t really like the idea of having to pay to go to school. With the number of things to learn about the world, it’s a shame it costs tens of thousands of dollars to pay to go to school, essentially proving to people that you are educated. Unfortunately, for many young people today, this is our only option.

Here’s how it could go. Every Peace Corps post has a number of skills they require – for instance engineering, English teachers, or technical experts.

Right now, Peace Corps volunteers are severely under-prepared when entering their post. They are essentially thrown into a completely different culture, given two months training in a language they’ve never spoken and often times have little to no previous experience in their sector.

Staging for our group was in Atlanta. They put us up in a nice hotel. And for three days, we played icebreakers and watched slideshows of the country we would spend the next two years in. Granted, often times there is no substitute to learning about places than just going there and winging it trying to figure it out. But if Peace Corps wanted to get serious about development work, they need to better prepare volunteers for the field.

If Obama is elected, he has mentioned how he wants to start a Green Jobs Corps. This Corps, would create, quoted from his website, “an energy-focused Green Jobs Corps to connect disconnected and disadvantaged youth with job skills for a high-growth industry.” I don’t know about other people, but I’ve felt pretty disconnected from Americana as of lately and disadvantaged? Well, that’s subjective no matter who you ask. And if you ask me, I’d say our disadvantages are only as difficult as we make them to be.