... because you care about PIRG stuff, or because you want a generally easygoing job? And if the latter, don't work for a PIRG because you'll make no money and be depressed. For serious.
I already make no money. A PIRG job would pay $7000 more than what I currently earn. And yes, because I care about PIRG stuff and the work of many other groups. Also, because I'm not convinced that research is for me.
You should google "crab bucket" if you haven't beforesimrobSeptember 15 2006, 06:15:57 UTC
I assume you're talking about Lowry Taylor, and I assume furthermore that his anger is still directed primarily at NTRC, and not at ITRC. If I'm wrong, I'm going to guess I'm still close enough to the idea to understand.
If I am correct, one of his friends, about a year ago now, looked me in the eye and told me that me being hired instead of someone from the North Lawndale community was "a slap in the face to the people of North Lawndale. I was at O'Hare airport that night, I hadn't packed, but I was screaming at my parents over the phone to say I could get on a plane. I'm glad for whatever reason I thought like I needed their permission before I did it.
The biggest shock of my being in Chicago was this way in which it was a new kind of hard, very, very, very hard, gut-wrenchingly and cry-at-night-ingly hard, and I hoped you would be less exposed at ITRC than I was at NTRC, but that doesn't make it not hard. Take care of yourself, call me sometime if you need an outside perspective, god knows I could have used one at times.
Re: You should google "crab bucket" if you haven't beforepazu13September 15 2006, 06:40:42 UTC
Ha! I did meet Lowry Taylor this afternoon, but my specific mystery man is actually a large white fellow. I was curious about your perspective indeed, but since this particular attack wasn't addressed to me or my character specifically, it's not such a blow - I doubt the man even knows I exist beyond as someone who went to the meetings. (Although Matt Masomething is aware of me and also anti-ITRC, just hasn't showed it.) I think the question for me is how much I should plan on enhancing my own ITRC commitment to show up said commentators and, well, at present that's still up for debate. But indeed, be in touch.
This specific issue is one, I must admit, that I don't know as much about as I'd like and probably should... nonetheless, let me offer a few words of comfort on a more general scale
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I don't believe I'm a random cog, quite. I just believe I'm seeing someone be passionate about an issue that, theoretically, I should be quite invested in but am not. The whole not-knowing-one's-place thing is however quite a problem, and I'm relying naively on time to help me work it out. But yes! Good to know that aimlessness is our universal post-collegiate creed, and watching The Gradualte, well, after graduating, helped with that. No fears, keep rocking, and I imagine I will see you come reunions...
Yes! I just saw "The Graduate" on TV the other night, and I was like -- uh, YEAH, exactly! This is so familiar! Well, except for the whole seduction by a fifty-year-old alcoholic thing. But yeah. Rock.
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If I am correct, one of his friends, about a year ago now, looked me in the eye and told me that me being hired instead of someone from the North Lawndale community was "a slap in the face to the people of North Lawndale. I was at O'Hare airport that night, I hadn't packed, but I was screaming at my parents over the phone to say I could get on a plane. I'm glad for whatever reason I thought like I needed their permission before I did it.
The biggest shock of my being in Chicago was this way in which it was a new kind of hard, very, very, very hard, gut-wrenchingly and cry-at-night-ingly hard, and I hoped you would be less exposed at ITRC than I was at NTRC, but that doesn't make it not hard. Take care of yourself, call me sometime if you need an outside perspective, god knows I could have used one at times.
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