Project 4

Don’t Noose Sight of What’s Important

The generation before us is constantly pressuring us into what they consider “jobs”, the dead-end, nine to five, going nowhere fast kind of jobs. They want us to rely on this one-track mindset, where you do well in high school to get into a good college, taking on thousands of dollars of debt, justifying it when you land a decent job, paying for an education that could have bought you a house while you struggle to find a spouse, then buying a house and car you can’t afford, locking yourself into paying them off for the next 30 years, forcing you to stick with that job you got right out of college, and when you’re desperate for something new, something like the life you could have had, you buy a new car, find a new spouse, and start a new family, because it’ll work this time, but once that first baby comes, you’re right back to trudging up the corporate step stool to middle management, for the stability you tell yourself, where you waste your life away running someone else’s company until you’re 70, no 75, because the age of retirement is increasing year after year until you can finally retire with a gold watch from the company, a 401K that you had to dip into to help your kids out with their college debt and an underfunded Social Security program, making you get a job as a WalMart greeter to make ends meet until you die from heart disease, unfulfilled, undervalued and underground. The tie symbolizes the tie you put on once you go out to find that job. As you tie it, you tie the noose around your future, your dreams, and the last chance you have at a fulfilling life.