Quote from: tvbcof on July 30, 2013, 04:55:02 PM

Quote from: tinus42 on July 30, 2013, 04:03:00 PM

Quote from: the joint on July 29, 2013, 06:35:10 PM

When I graduated and began work as a counselor in the adult psychiatric unit of a Chicago hospital, I made $15/hr with a post-graduate degree and was sent to the emergency room twice for being assaulted on the job within a period of 6 months.

When was that? $15 was worth more ten years ago than it is now due to inflation.

A year or two ago this guy was on this forum boo-hoo'ing about being a broke student as I remember things. Maybe he was not whining about that, but there was something fairly trivial that he made a notable stink about. Anyway, I remember how I felt when I had my first 'well paying' job. It was like walking on air and a big confidence booster and a strode the earth like Goliath for a few weeks. It is understandable now that the guy would be crowing about his success...albeit a little ugly that he would be berating an entire class of people who don't have the wherewithal to go get one of the countless 'dream jobs' that abound.

>$500 is not trivial. When you win a skill-based contest fair and square then you lose out on the winnings that are owed to you according to the rules, making a "stink" is justified. I don't regret defending my position whatsoever.

A far as the rest of your post goes, I'm not really sure how to respond. If you're suggesting that either I shouldn't be proud of doing what I had to do to better my circumstances, or that this pride somehow makes me entitled and that undermines my original point (I.e I'm a hypocrite), or that I was being boastful and veering off topic, or that I'm berating a specific "class" of people at all, then I can only form one conclusion: you don't even know what the OP was even about so as to make a contextually relevant response.