Obstacles are hard to handle because they don't have to be part of life. Life is easy. We are born, the earth bears the fruit that sustain us, the clouds and the rivers bathe us and quench our thirst. Our bodies are sufficient organic machines and can adapt to many different types of weather.
How so does life become hard?
Answer: People make it hard
I feel like in the past year, I've grown so much as a person, more than any other time in my life. I'm at a cross road in life [not the last I'm sure]. I'm either going to make a right or a wrong. It is scary when you don't have anything to fall back on if you make that wrong. I have no one in my life that can "bail" me out. If I make that wrong, I'm stuck.
It is sometimes overwhelming when companies target me based on my demographics. This may sound like a conspiracy theory to many of you (insert you here - optional).
- I'm Latina (how more hispanic can my name get?!)
- I'm a woman (therefore more likely to be stupid? - or accepting of authority rather...supposedly)
- I'm young (yea, it actually is a disadvantage when it comes to respect and underestimation of life and intellectual experience...supposedly)
- I'm poor (therefore more likely to be undereducated...in many ways...supposedly)
Add this up together... what do they see? An easy target. A target that no one really gives a hoot about and pays attention to when they complain. Do you think I'm lying? This year alone I've had FIVE (yes FIVE) different companies charge me "misc fees, penalties, etc.., that then get transferred to either collection agencies or some more random collection agency to buy it for cheap.
No, I'm actually really responsible. I actually have gone to college, NYU - Stern School of Business, have lived in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and have done this because of me not because I was blindly following my family/parents/friends/etc... Yes, this is near impossible to accomplish without having a long-term plan and being responsible (unfortunately).
They just love to target me. I'm a victim of targeted financial harassment.
Like my student loans....
I have 60k in debt [NYU is not cheap - my stupidy didn't help either!]. 60k!!! Student Loans are the devil. The companies which distribute them are part of the evilness and dark empire called disgusting S.O.B.s.
I DON'T CARE if most of you have more, I DON'T CARE, we have TWO VERY complete mentalities, support systems, and resources. IT IS NOWHERE NEAR the same.
I'm sick of being a slave to these loans. I'm not meant to be this way. I'm not meant to be a typical 9-6er (yes, they have extended the freakin 9-5 work day!!!), at least not in the same place all the time!
1 comments:
dude student loans suck. I am about to marry into more than you have. plus my own. it sucks. but don't let it take over your life. the whole idea was that NYU could get you a better job than you'd have otherwise. is this true? I can't say for sure but what's done is done. use what you have to get where you need to go and don't be strangled by the loans.
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