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Impressing recruiters is easy. Doing that doesn't make you privileged. I drove from PA to CA when I was 18, working along the way on my own business, and got a
by winrid 6y ago
Impressing recruiters is easy. Doing that doesn't make you privileged.
I drove from PA to CA when I was 18, working along the way on my own business, and got a job in SV on my third interview as a "software engineer" making 65k. Bottom of the barrel coding job.
I'm somehow privileged now? Because I worked literally every day from the time I was 17 in high school until I got a full time job. Right.
- alex_anglin 6y agoIf you earned your privilege, how does that not make you privileged nonetheless?
- dx87 6y agoIf you earned it, then it isn't privilege, by defintion. Unless you consider being born a hard worker as being privileged, in which case the word is meaningless.
- boyobo 6y agoI think people are using the word in different ways. The person you are responding to is using it as a description of the current state.
- rimliu 6y agoSo the person is misusing it.
- boyobo 6y agoIt's certainly different from what seems like the standard usage in the past few years, but I woudn't say it's a misuse. Here's is google's dictionary definition "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group." In this case, the "advatange" would be 'able to find job without going through recruiter' and the 'particular person or group' would be 'the group of people who (through their hard work or otherwise) are sufficiently talented/and or secure enough in their career' Anyway it's sad this this word has such a negative smell attached to it now, thanks to people using it to shame people on the opposing side of internet arguments.
- mushbino 6y agoYou left out 18 years in that story so it's hard to tell.
- winrid 6y agoMy entire direct family is on welfare and was half my life. My parents spent a significant amount of time in mental hospitals while I lived with various aunts and grandparents (sometimes trailers, sometimes in a farm house. I liked the farm house though). Yeah. Lots of privilege.
- Aeolun 6y agoLiving in a farm house sounds like privilege compared to trailers :) Anyway, no need to defend yourself against random internet people. In the end it’s all down to hard work and a bit of luck (the people not doing the hard work part will never be in a position to make use of the luck).
- winrid 6y agoYeah I did let myself get worked up. We actually ended up loosing the farm house to the bank. I say farm house because that's an easy way to describe it, but it was really just a house on the edge of another farm in the middle of nowhere. Lots of peace and quiet. :)
- kyawzazaw 6y agoWhat year was that?
- winrid 6y agoWhich part?
- BeetleB 6y ago> Because I worked literally every day from the time I was 17 in high school until I got a full time job. Frankly, the recruiter route is simpler and has a higher success rate than what you did.
- winrid 6y agoWell, yes. It wasn't planned though. I just needed money while I was in school. Parents wanted to charge rent and I wanted to buy a car.
- etripe 6y agoI think what they meant was not needing recruiters puts you in a relatively well-off and thus "privileged" position.