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[areyououtthere]

I was going to write an entry about how I have no idea what I'd do with even entry-level-salary-like amounts of money. Then I realized that I can make such statements, in large part, because I don't have student loan debt. For that I am extraordinarily grateful, and will spare you all my privileged confusion/avoid starting a flame war

Comments

[pfeif]

you're not the only one out there with that privileged confusion--as I've become more open about it, I've realized more and more people I know share it.

[crystalpyramid]

Start a retirement account? Upgrade all your travel to Amtrak? Buy furniture? Put it all in savings so you can wipe it out the next time you have to pay first, last, and security for a place you want to live? Donate to the places you no longer have time to volunteer at? Money always finds a home, and having more money than time isn't necessarily easier than having more time than money.

Good luck with job things, and let me know if there's anything I can do.

[orawnzva]

Does checking one's privilege naturally reach a point of saturation or fatigue? I see you going down this road in a lot of your posts and, given what I know about you otherwise, I wonder if it's really helping either you or anyone else. Spending a lot of time thinking about how the problems you have are not real or legitimate because others have worse problems is itself a form of indulgence. Feeling guilty for having the problems you have rather than another collection of problems solves neither set, and besides, it makes you feel bad.

It's good to be aware that differently situated people face different situations (!), and that other people might well envy you your current "problem", but the fact that the level of intimacy with which you are acquainted with a problem is better correlated to whether or not it's a problem you have than it is to how pressing a problem it is in terms of some global moral calculus should no longer come as an unpleasant surprise.