It's a big, big, bad, bad, bad world

We had this guy in interviewing last week. Apparently, he was with a company that was in the process of outsourcing all of its copyediting and proofreading work to India. If that's not enough for you to love corporate America, they were also making him train his replacement.
Wow. Ouch. That's a company whose Human Resources head honchos must think of its employees more as resources than as humans. That's just fucking cold and heartless, but unfortunately, it's not terribly uncommon. +
When I heard this, I kinda freaked out a bit. There's absolutely no way I want to end up in a similar situation as this guy...I've been through enough in what I can tenuously call my "career." I have to find a way to make myself unoutsourceable, and that just might require me to once again realize that my dad was right yet again, this time about grad school.
He has been clamoring for me to go to get an advanced degree, just to make myself a bit more marketable and distinguish myself from others. I'm not quite sure what I want to study (or how to pay for it, really), but I'm slowly coming to the realization that it's something I might need to do.
As a joke, he said he'd buy me an old Alfa-Romeo spider if I finished grad school.* I think that might have been the car of the week that I was looking up on ebaymotors the last time he was in the states and had this grad school conversation. Shiite...I should have been looking up BMWs.
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+ This makes me thankful for being with the company I'm with. We have it relatively easy there and a good environment within which to work. The work might be repetitive and not especially challenging, but when looked at with the healthy dose of perspective one gains with experience (and some experience isn't going to be good, friends) it could be much bloody worse.
* It's a fun joke, but a joke nonetheless. There's no chance he'd buy me a car, much less a convertible, for something I should do on my own initiative anyway. I won't hold him to it, but it might be nice to see him sweat a bit.