Them: "You can't just eat potato salad that's been out since this afternoon, it's got mayonnaise in it, it will spoil. It's gross."
Me: <eats> "I don't even like potato salad. It was served cold, and it's still cold."
It's the middle-class, bro.
They are so weird. I never used to believe that there were major class differences between populations. Like, it doesn't matter how much money a person has, if they have similar values, they'll look basically the same. But that's just not true. The middle class are fucking alien. I grew up poor and mostly rural so their entire perspective on reality is contrary to mine. I couldn't relate to any of them if I weren't surrounded by nerds.
Then, of course, there are the suburbanite mid-wits which I simply have never been able to stand.
Class is more of a divider than race or religion. No question.
As someone who was working poor for most of my life and who recently joined the middle class in the last three years (looks like I will be back to my roots soon though) I totally agree. People in the middle class who have not known anything else are weird/ignorant of much of the hardship. It's pretty fucked up.
Will do my best to try at this point with what I have left. Savings have been wiped thanks to the "progressive" quarantine here in MI. Even ended up leaving the field of law because I no longer see a point in it. Been a hell of a couple of months and the worst is yet to come.
My biggest advice is to not get stuck in one place. On my own hard times, I've learned well that it's best to be homeless than to be carless. Find a job first, to keep the money coming in. The field of law is probably not that useless for income, but I don't know the local area. It is also possible that you can move to a different field to learn a job that might be still be in need of your fundamental skills (even if it's things like reading contracts, writing instructions, doing research, etc).
Your primary object should be to avoid limiting yourself, so that you can find solid ground to stand on first, even if it might require a more significant change.
It's the middle-class, bro.
They are so weird. I never used to believe that there were major class differences between populations. Like, it doesn't matter how much money a person has, if they have similar values, they'll look basically the same. But that's just not true. The middle class are fucking alien. I grew up poor and mostly rural so their entire perspective on reality is contrary to mine. I couldn't relate to any of them if I weren't surrounded by nerds.
Then, of course, there are the suburbanite mid-wits which I simply have never been able to stand.
Class is more of a divider than race or religion. No question.
As someone who was working poor for most of my life and who recently joined the middle class in the last three years (looks like I will be back to my roots soon though) I totally agree. People in the middle class who have not known anything else are weird/ignorant of much of the hardship. It's pretty fucked up.
Just keep saving that money... as gold and silver, frankly.
Will do my best to try at this point with what I have left. Savings have been wiped thanks to the "progressive" quarantine here in MI. Even ended up leaving the field of law because I no longer see a point in it. Been a hell of a couple of months and the worst is yet to come.
My biggest advice is to not get stuck in one place. On my own hard times, I've learned well that it's best to be homeless than to be carless. Find a job first, to keep the money coming in. The field of law is probably not that useless for income, but I don't know the local area. It is also possible that you can move to a different field to learn a job that might be still be in need of your fundamental skills (even if it's things like reading contracts, writing instructions, doing research, etc).
Your primary object should be to avoid limiting yourself, so that you can find solid ground to stand on first, even if it might require a more significant change.