It’s Their Fault

Let’s have a look at the budget of someone (you!) who is just starting out in big NYC with an independent career plan. We’ll say you start out making $26,004 per year as a freelancer of some sort (starting a business, an artist, working an hourly side job, etc.) and live in Brooklyn. [...]

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A flurry of posts today about connections to go along with last week’s post.
From lhote:
…on a basic level, when someone gets hooked up for a job, both egalitarianism and efficiency are damaged. The way it’s supposed to work is, if you are a superior candidate, you get the job– and your hard work/talent are rewarded. [...]

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Last week, the New York Times put out a popularly e-mailed piece about students choosing big-money corporate jobs instead of service or artistic jobs. Too many students, they say, are lured by the big paycheck.
On other campuses as well, officials are questioning with new vigor whether too many top students who might otherwise [...]

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One of the more annoying ways in which the Boomers have blamed us for the problems they have left us with is the whole “Perma-Parenting” concept. We’ve all read about somewhere or another: it’s a backhanded way that Boomers blame us for not making enough, not finding a career, etc. - they blame themselves [...]

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