I'd like to think it's so easy to disregard all this, but I can say that as someone who also eschews the whole status thing (maybe I'm overly sensitive to it),

I'd like to think it's so easy to disregard all this, but I can say that as someone who also eschews the whole status thing (maybe I'm overly sensitive to it), people seem to disregard me mostly, which I suppose is fine. I think I'd rather be left alone to mostly just fart around and play, but I have some rather serious medical needs and so I have to try and stay employed through one company's layoffs or other. It seems I can never really escape the employment status games at a minimum.