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0 pointswinrid5y ago0 comments

Impressing recruiters is easy. Doing that doesn't make you privileged.

I drove from PA to CA when I was 18, working along the way on my own business, and got a job in SV on my third interview as a "software engineer" making 65k. Bottom of the barrel coding job.

I'm somehow privileged now? Because I worked literally every day from the time I was 17 in high school until I got a full time job. Right.

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mushbino5y ago

You left out 18 years in that story so it's hard to tell.

winridOP5y ago

My entire direct family is on welfare and was half my life. My parents spent a significant amount of time in mental hospitals while I lived with various aunts and grandparents (sometimes trailers, sometimes in a farm house. I liked the farm house though).

Yeah. Lots of privilege.

Aeolun5y ago

Living in a farm house sounds like privilege compared to trailers :)

Anyway, no need to defend yourself against random internet people.

In the end it’s all down to hard work and a bit of luck (the people not doing the hard work part will never be in a position to make use of the luck).

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etripe5y ago

I think what they meant was not needing recruiters puts you in a relatively well-off and thus "privileged" position.

alex_anglin5y ago

If you earned your privilege, how does that not make you privileged nonetheless?

dx875y ago

If you earned it, then it isn't privilege, by defintion. Unless you consider being born a hard worker as being privileged, in which case the word is meaningless.

boyobo5y ago

I think people are using the word in different ways. The person you are responding to is using it as a description of the current state.

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BeetleB5y ago

> Because I worked literally every day from the time I was 17 in high school until I got a full time job.

Frankly, the recruiter route is simpler and has a higher success rate than what you did.

winridOP5y ago

Well, yes. It wasn't planned though. I just needed money while I was in school. Parents wanted to charge rent and I wanted to buy a car.

kyawzazaw5y ago

What year was that?

winridOP5y ago

Which part?

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0 pointswinrid5y ago0 comments

Impressing recruiters is easy. Doing that doesn't make you privileged.

I drove from PA to CA when I was 18, working along the way on my own business, and got a job in SV on my third interview as a "software engineer" making 65k. Bottom of the barrel coding job.

I'm somehow privileged now? Because I worked literally every day from the time I was 17 in high school until I got a full time job. Right.

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mushbino5y ago

You left out 18 years in that story so it's hard to tell.

winridOP5y ago

Yeah. Lots of privilege.

Aeolun5y ago

Living in a farm house sounds like privilege compared to trailers :)

Anyway, no need to defend yourself against random internet people.

In the end it’s all down to hard work and a bit of luck (the people not doing the hard work part will never be in a position to make use of the luck).

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etripe5y ago

I think what they meant was not needing recruiters puts you in a relatively well-off and thus "privileged" position.

alex_anglin5y ago

If you earned your privilege, how does that not make you privileged nonetheless?

dx875y ago

If you earned it, then it isn't privilege, by defintion. Unless you consider being born a hard worker as being privileged, in which case the word is meaningless.

boyobo5y ago

I think people are using the word in different ways. The person you are responding to is using it as a description of the current state.

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BeetleB5y ago

> Because I worked literally every day from the time I was 17 in high school until I got a full time job.

Frankly, the recruiter route is simpler and has a higher success rate than what you did.

winridOP5y ago

Well, yes. It wasn't planned though. I just needed money while I was in school. Parents wanted to charge rent and I wanted to buy a car.

kyawzazaw5y ago

What year was that?

winridOP5y ago

Which part?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse