I am one of "those people" who work in fast food places because I don't have a degree. Actually, it is because I never had the money or encouragment to go to University to begin with. (My parents considered it my responsiblity to fund my own secondary education since they had "already wasted enough money raising a stupid, ugly, useless GIRL." Their words.) My efforts to go to collage have been strewn with obstacles from the start. The unemployment centre in my town only caters to those women wanting to get into nursing, teaching, secreterial (which they won't pay for anymore), and have always traditionally frowned upon anyone male or female interested in the "sissy" fine arts. So, instead, I belong to the Camera Club, play my mandolin with the Bluegrass Society, and basically devote my spare time to my hobbies after work at the DQ. I have even managed to save my meager income and travel to Europe, around Canada, and to parts of the US of A. At 42 years old I consider myself a successful person, spiritually, but not career-wise. Depends on what you define as being "successful". The reason I got interested in this site was so i could change my thinking and work on bettering my life, anyway, so I may just get a degree someday.
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