Hi. My name is... Carrie
Posted by CarrieAnneJD 6 years, 9 months ago to The Gulch: Introductions
I'm very happy to have landed in the Gulch...
I am a young attorney working every day to hold people accountable for the harm they cause to others. I have recently had an epiphany: my generation was told to "invest in ourselves" while simultaneously expecting anyone whose investment provides a return to not receive the benefit of that return. I would have more expendable income if I had continued waitressing after high school and never gone to college than I would now, as a mid-level attorney working in a profitable industry.
I try to explain that a "right" to someone else's production has no logical distinction between itself and slavery, and people call me heartless. I ask them for any reason why someone else should be entitled to take what I have worked hard for, and they say it's because someone else shouldn't have to suffer. All the while, I am trapped in student loan debt, which I cannot pay off because the looters see me as having more than them.
I'm hoping this is a community where we can do more than identify the problem of the looting. I'm looking forward to speaking with you all.
-CAL
I am a young attorney working every day to hold people accountable for the harm they cause to others. I have recently had an epiphany: my generation was told to "invest in ourselves" while simultaneously expecting anyone whose investment provides a return to not receive the benefit of that return. I would have more expendable income if I had continued waitressing after high school and never gone to college than I would now, as a mid-level attorney working in a profitable industry.
I try to explain that a "right" to someone else's production has no logical distinction between itself and slavery, and people call me heartless. I ask them for any reason why someone else should be entitled to take what I have worked hard for, and they say it's because someone else shouldn't have to suffer. All the while, I am trapped in student loan debt, which I cannot pay off because the looters see me as having more than them.
I'm hoping this is a community where we can do more than identify the problem of the looting. I'm looking forward to speaking with you all.
-CAL
Welcome to the Gulch. :-)
I can relate to what you're saying. I too still have student loan debt. What irks me at times is the fact that for what I do (marketing/admin/project management type stuff) you don't need a degree. (Okay, most companies want you to have a degree, but all of the skills I currently use I taught myself or learned on the job, so a degree hasn't helped me be better at what I do.) I sometimes wonder if I'd be in the same place if I didn't get a degree (just with more expendable income).