First order of business: my birthday was awesome & I was shocked (to the point of a few tears) at how many people were sharing links to my art and buying prints from my webstore
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#fuckplanb is bourgeois nonsense; it really means "I can always move back to mama's". People who can't do that have more than one plan.
I didn't take that away from the original intent at all. I think working Plan B while working TOWARD Plan A still counts as #fuckplanb. I think all it means is: Don't give up. I don't think it means "ditch the day job to drive across country to try out for American Idol." That's not a plan at all.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the spirit of #FuckplanB. As a girl who was in $98,000 worth of debt and being unable to pay my bills by the time I was 25, and not having an option to "move back to mama's" or have my parents pay off my debt, to eventually having quite a bit of money in the bank by most people's standards, I've been on both the poverty and the privileged side
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Amen, sister. My emergency fund IS a jar of change, I have no family to bail me out and I HAVE become homeless because of a series of unfortunate events that could have happened to anybody...it must be nice to have Mummy or Daddy or Rich Famous Husband to be there when you fall but that is not most people's reality. Thanks for having the balls to say it. You are MY hero. P.S. Happy Belated Birthday!!
The ones that excited me were the ones directed to one plan, but actually went to do their desire. Being committed is good, being stupidly one-tracked is not. People take a flier, commit everything and fly or crash and burn.
As a European, I am often told that one of the differences betweeen us is that Americans accept failure better, and your most successful business is probably your third. OTOH, eating is good....
I speak as someone came from a single-parent family (now both dead), who got through university mostly by their own endevours, is working in the career area they identified in their early teen, but is now trapped by low grade financials - enought to not want to walk away from, but not enough to be rich.
I agree with you if Plan A is anything creative, risky/extremely competitive, or with a limited time span (e.g. pro athlete). Or something that requires considerable sums of money to get started.
If Plan A is something like wanting to become a plumber and eventually run a small plumbing company, then it makes sense to throw oneself into it.
Aside from money/class, people who can say Fuck Plan B might be young enough to get away with it. A 19-year-old from a poverty-level background (but with scholarships and loans) who is studying photography in college can do wedding photography as a side job while dreaming of becoming the next Herb Ritts... and tell his friends to Fuck Plan B because things are working out all right for him. But he hasn't lived long enough to see that being a big fish in a little pond isn't the same as being a commercial success.
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I didn't take that away from the original intent at all. I think working Plan B while working TOWARD Plan A still counts as #fuckplanb. I think all it means is: Don't give up. I don't think it means "ditch the day job to drive across country to try out for American Idol." That's not a plan at all.
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As a European, I am often told that one of the differences betweeen us is that Americans accept failure better, and your most successful business is probably your third. OTOH, eating is good....
I speak as someone came from a single-parent family (now both dead), who got through university mostly by their own endevours, is working in the career area they identified in their early teen, but is now trapped by low grade financials - enought to not want to walk away from, but not enough to be rich.
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If Plan A is something like wanting to become a plumber and eventually run a small plumbing company, then it makes sense to throw oneself into it.
Aside from money/class, people who can say Fuck Plan B might be young enough to get away with it. A 19-year-old from a poverty-level background (but with scholarships and loans) who is studying photography in college can do wedding photography as a side job while dreaming of becoming the next Herb Ritts... and tell his friends to Fuck Plan B because things are working out all right for him. But he hasn't lived long enough to see that being a big fish in a little pond isn't the same as being a commercial success.
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