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Squall28 posted...

It's obviously a combination of everything, but I don't like the mentality of focusing on things outside your control. There's a lot an individual can do to up their status.

I can see both sides of this. On one hand I was born into a bit of money and had the luxury of paying for college in full, out of pocket, as well as every car I've ever owned. The only loan I've ever taken out is on my house, which I did before I was 30. I have no idea what it's like to be in debt or wonder where my next meal is coming from. That said, I did still work hard to make a name for myself, and as a college-educated, upper-middle class person, I still cannot land a job that pays more than about $15 an hour. It's always, "oh, you didn't intern or never did this or that." Frankly, after a while, being told no no no so often when you are clearly qualified (sometimes overly so) becomes so disheartening that it makes you not want to try any longer. I get it. so even though I have a cushion a lot of people don't have, I'm still in kind of of the same boat

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