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ExWhoDoesntCare

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10. I'd hate to have to trot out my stepsister
Mon Jul 31, 2023, 04:08 PM
Jul 2023

The Spanish major who's probably had a higher annual income than this useless wanker ever has. What would really tick him off is how she sidestepped that mindless automaton for the college to prison--er, jobs pipeline, and instead spent a few years doing that uber-liberal backpacking across Latin American instead.

Never mind how living in assorted countries improved not only her language/dialect skills, but also exposed her to variations in regional customs and mores. Your language and cultural awareness skills always get a major boost when you're living and working with the locals. Especially as a bartender, lol. Every town always needed a bartender or at least a waitress, so that's what she spent her time doing instead of crawling up the corporate ladder.

Only to land a mid-six-figures salary less than a month after returning home. So much for "useless" foreign language majors and taking the roundabout way into a high-flying job.

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