One day I’ll understand why people assume that working at B&N means I’m a high school drop out with kids, and my life is going no where. And that THEY THINK IT IS OKAY TO SAY INSULTING SHIT ABOUT ME, MY JOB, AND WHY THEIR KIDS NEED TO TRY HARDER AT SCHOOL OR ELSE THEY’LL “BE LIKE HER” (read: me).
No, I’m a high school grad, my job requires at least a high school diploma or GED. I don’t have kids. I don’t know if I want kids. I am not financially stable enough to have children. But what does it matter if I did? I’m clearly working to support any supposed off spring I may have. And who says my life is going no where? Maybe I’m in a master’s program and I need extra money, or y’know just money. Maybe I’m taking a semester off, maybe I have a PhD and the only job I could get was there. There are people with PhD’s and Masters who are working at McDonalds because THAT’S ALL THEY CAN GET.
No, I don’t have those. I have 2 Associates of Arts in English and History. I’m really fuckin proud of those, and I got them without taking out loans. Does that make me better than the people who did? No, that’s just a personal “hurrah”, that I was able to do it. I’m saving up to go back to school. I’m saving up to get my BA in Education, so I can go teach and help children, teens, and adults.Â
If you work in a minimum wage (or less) job, please, PLEASE remember you’re doing what you can. You’re working your butt off, and people who say rude things never realize if we weren’t there, they woudln’t have their coffee, or their Big Macs or their pizzas, or whatever it is.Â