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Lifelong Protester

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2. Wow! in the last year
Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:42 PM
Jun 2012

I went from a middle class schmo, one with a college degree and two past the BA, to an:

"entrenched interest"
"fat cat" because I make above minimum wage, and have benefits and a defined pension
"an elitist" because I can think critically above the level of a third -grader (not to offend any third-graders reading this...)

Wow.

In the 90s, I was laughed at by fam and friends for working in a 'sucker's field', an 'namby-pamby' public sector job. I was a 'chump', using my brains and education only to get 'stuck' in a 'mediocre' career.

How times have changed, eh?

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