Antick Musing's Fridays, Black and Otherwise

[james_davis_nicoll]

[...] [M]odern Westerners can be separated by the work they did when they were young and unskilled. One great mass worked in retail, selling goods of one kind or another. A second cohort worked in food service, waiting tables or working a grill. And the third group, seemingly the luck ones, were those rich or privileged enough not to have to work at all -- the ones who were children, then entirely students, and then set off on their careers, without ever having had "just a job."

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[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

I never had a job until I was in university, and I don't feel I personally was either rich* or particularly privileged -- I grew up in a quasi-rural area three miles from the nearest bus stop, am disabled, and generally had no reliable access to a car. That pretty much meant I couldn't get a job until I was living on my own in the city...

(* Frexample, my parents were fairly wealthy but I had to beg to get new pairs of shoes when the old ones wore out; my dad's favourite tactic was to glue the soles back on the uppers with lumpy hot glue instead.)