Industrial...

I've been working in an industry that is founded on mediocrity and nepotism. My industry
has billions of less important, middle manager type jobs who have relatively minimal responsibilities, just to make sure that people are sending he right thinga to the right places at the right times, and so on and so forth.
For every job, they have two basic choices: do we hire a young person with minimal experience, a weird looking resume, and an impressive pedigree, who will work really hard out f fear of being fired, make unusual choices, and work for a small amount of money because s/he is desperate for a job, has no family to support, and has a family who might help him or her if worst comes to worst; OR a middle-aged person who has lots of experience being a non-important middle manager, someone who has no hope of rising to a higher position, someone who has no ideas, who has been hanging on by playing to the middle for a long time, someone who feels entitled to a steady stream of small raises by being consistently mediocre. I hate my industry! Why am I wasting my time here? I don't want to work in a cube, circling typos, trying to sell text books to rich suburban kids. I want to teach kids! Give me a teaching job, universe!