Becoming a Person - by Alistair Kitchen - Kitchen Counter
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the point of all this
Me, leaving undergrad The other day, while sweeping the floor in the living room, my mother asked me if I regretted not going into tech or finance. “I was talking to some other mothers and they were all saying how much money their children were making,” she said, or words to that effect. I could hardly blame her for the question. I’m 31 and on my third master’s degree. I do not have anything resembling a traditional career. My current program, an MFA in nonfiction, is so embarrassingly expensive that I do anything I can to avoid the question when it comes up – even if it is the first I’ve…
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