Reply #4: library and info science [View All]

[RainDog]

there are lots of jobs in my field...there are lots of fields in my fields, as well. I went into student loan debt in order to make it possible for my kids to be able to live with both parents (and I have one son who is high-functioning autistic) until they were older. now they are. so am I.

I'm sending out apps now.

I don't regret what I did, at all. Except I wished I'd done it earlier.

Nevertheless, I was a stay-at-home mom/part-timer in other jobs while my kids were younger, for the most part. You know... the "family values" sort of family. didn't get a divorce for any of the usual "bad" reasons, either... long story. has to do with mental illness and stress like you wouldn't have been able to believe.

but my life, I'd bet, isn't all that different than many others who cannot figure out what the fuck I did that made it okay to pay a non-living wage, with no insurance, and yet work my ass off while Paris Hilton does fuck nothing and lives like a pig in shit.

life's like that.

I read about others who have it much worse than I do, all the time. They didn't "deserve" their situation either. this is how and why the U.S. sucks. Why it is the Beverly Hillbillies of western democracies. Frankly, I fucking hate living here, but don't have many other choices. I hate living here because of the people who create economic policies that put some CEO's viagra-fed golden parachute over the well being of a mother of two who simply wants a living wage and insurance.

any rightwinger who wants to talk to me about economics can kiss my ass because he's talking out of his.