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If you think that having an Emmy, degree from Harvard, and a slot on the NYT best-seller list makes you any more qualified for a job at the Container Store than
by ja27 12y ago
If you think that having an Emmy, degree from Harvard, and a slot on the NYT best-seller list makes you any more qualified for a job at the Container Store than a 19 year old high school dropout with 2 years of McJob experience, you might be a classist.
- crpatino 12y agoAgreed. College educated people tend to never think much about the overwhelming amount of tacit knowledge needed for less prestigious and apparently simple jobs. Still, I can feel the pain of the author, having gone through several months of unemployment at the beginning of my marriage. You did everything the elders told you to do, and still you end up getting the short stick and thrown to the sidewalk. I was able to pivot my career and bounce back, in part due to being still youngish... in part thanks to the support of my family. But I can clearly see what a shipwreck that would have been 20 years later, minus a spouse and plus a couple of teenager kids.
- wutbrodo 12y agoSeriously...I find the implication that all retail work is just being a warm body is pretty damn insulting, and I've never even worked retail.