My mom told me I'm to get a job at McDonalds tomorrow, since I couldn't get a job anywhere else.

It might sound conceited and spoiled, but it feels like it's the end of my life. Am I being too prideful for thinking that applying for a job at McDonalds with a diploma... hold on, my tourist guiding one makes it two, so with two diplomas degrading?

I mean I didn't learn foreign languages and slave away at university to end up working in McDonalds, washing toilets and frying fries. I could have gone to arts school! I could have studied the things I wanted to, after all, worst case: I would still end up in McDonalds.

I know it's just McDonalds. But... it's McDonalds! I'm scared and repulsed by the whole idea, and I can't help but wonder if I'm too prideful and conceited or if I have any right to be offended by the whole thing.

After all, I speak and write English better than some of the native English and Americans I know, which doesn't mean I'm perfect, but still, I speak some German too, and I'm decent enough with computers. I'm also intelligent enough not to have to fry food for a living. So why is it that I have to apply for work in a fast food joint to make a living where imbeciles could do the work?

I know. Jobs are scarce these days, and I should be happy if they hired me, because then I'll have the money to move and finally have my own life. But I'm not. The idea of McDonalds scares me.

And also, I would have to cancel all my English teaching gigs, something I actually enjoy.

I hate this. I don't wanna. It's degrading.

Am I spoiled rotten or just sane?