It's probably not because her parents with money lost their large, immaculate house.
The house I grew up in wasn't spotless, and I had no expectations of owning a huge, immaculate house in some hoity-toity neighborhood. I was jealous of the people I knew from school who had those things. The chain that binds her is class.
I just need to come up with a post that expands on that without sounding like sour grapes or personal dislike. An I didn't dream of dragons for the working class.
Mine was huge, but a mess. And I didn't dream of owning a huge house myself. But I do understand the worries about a general trend of this generation falling behind the last generation. That is a valid point, even if it's ridiculous to think everyone should be able to buy a nice, large, pretty house.
Ours were modest: half a duplex, a one-story rancher-style, a 3-story townhouse, and they were never immaculate. The floor and furniture was covered with dog hair. My room in the rancher was a wreck, but when we moved to the townhouse, I had to keep much tidier, because my room was 10x10. I didn't even have a desk in there and did all my homework on the bed.
I'm not even sure the chain that binds her is class. One major binder that I see is that we have a culture which tells kids that all they need to do to find well-paying employment is graduate from college.
"Follow your heart" sounds great, but an engineering or science degree is way more likely to pay the bills than an art history degree. For that matter, vocational school for plumbing or HVAC is more likely to pay the bills than many university degrees.
I think class factors into that a bit, though. Really poor kids may hear that, but they'll think, pfft, as if I could even go to college.
Oh, trust me. I know that so damn well. That's why I have a BS in chemistry and a PharmD, while what I really want to do is study German language and literature. And write fiction.
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The house I grew up in wasn't spotless, and I had no expectations of owning a huge, immaculate house in some hoity-toity neighborhood. I was jealous of the people I knew from school who had those things. The chain that binds her is class.
I just need to come up with a post that expands on that without sounding like sour grapes or personal dislike. An I didn't dream of dragons for the working class.
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"Follow your heart" sounds great, but an engineering or science degree is way more likely to pay the bills than an art history degree. For that matter, vocational school for plumbing or HVAC is more likely to pay the bills than many university degrees.
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Oh, trust me. I know that so damn well. That's why I have a BS in chemistry and a PharmD, while what I really want to do is study German language and literature. And write fiction.