Working as hard as the day is long

I like the Mike Rose book a lot. It was coming from a point of view that many of the academics tend to over look. I bet if I gave my mom or dad that book they could pin point some of the main ideas the piece was presenting. With that, this class has actually made me feel pretty bad. I feel like I am stuck in a class that isnt bad, but not necessarly what I am looking for out of life. Thanks media and thank you all mighty American dream. I don't know what more I can do as a person to become something more than what I am bound to be. I feel no matter what amount of education level I have I need to work and work hard and physical sometimes to get satisfaction from what I am doing. Is everyone like this? I feel like I lose myself in work and academics and when this is all said and done I have no idea where I will be. I think of myself as cultured and well traveled, I know people in high places, but I still have working class values. Mike Rose shows how many of these working class people are happy and content, but we've also read many stories of people lost and stuck in this limbo of class belonging. Just adds a whole different element to the individual. "working as hard as the day is long, a working man works when he gets home" dmb