Eh, I took Jane’s comment as a subtle hint that perhaps the LW is a bit on her high horse about her degrees, which is a sense I also got, reading her letter. (That doesn’t make her an awful person or the villain of this piece, but man, it’s obnoxious.)

I don’t think the poster was even job hopping.

You’re absolutely right. But LW does need to stop thinking it makes her better.

Hi Sheesh!

Yes. If you’re spending 8 hours a day, any day, playing with a cat you can be spending 8 hours a day working at a suboptimal job, or even volunteering or interning for your resume or, I dunno, doing some house or yard work for your parents who provide you with free room and board at the age of 24.

We are in the exact same boat right now. An passage in my IG feed this morning had me bawling otw to work:

Ditto. Receptionist was my foot in the door. *Temp* receptionist at that. (Like via a temp agency - very little $, no bennies, no respect.) Within 3 years I was a marketing manager.

I am 32, so I think that makes me a millennial (that entire post made me scream “YOU FUCKING MILLENNIAL!!”... but I also had a dad who grew up pretty rough (south side Irish, piss poor - like robbed people for food growing up - but worked his ass off to support us when he was older) and he said to me over and over and…

Totally codependent behavior, and it happens so often with family groups and siblings. I’d recommend getting to some Codependents Anonymous meetings as well, if those aren’t available in her area, Alanon or ACoA.

I have a feeling letter-writer is expecting a high salary right off the bat just because of her degree, and she’s never going to get it without some experience. Instead of using the free rent to do an internship relevant to her field, she’s just sitting around sending resumes to out-of-league jobs and playing with the…

I actually had my first “ugh, ^#*&()* millenials!” moment the other day and still feel kinda gross about it. I hate stereotypes and cliches but it does seems like a lot of young people these days don’t understand the whole you have to work to live concept. I started as a receptionist too and worked hard to learn and…

No way her mom showed her the texts. I think She would have said “my mom showed me” or “my mom told me” not that she “read those text messages to my mom’s phone[.]” The passive way she wrote it was glossing over that she was reading them without permission.

I think her point is that someone is not fundamentally worth less as a human being if they haven’t completed grad school. Not that the LW shouldn’t be very proud of finishing grad school.

Yep, I also started as a receptionist in my field, and I gradually worked my way up to a highly desirable and well paid position. People in my field or new graduates ask me all the time how I did it, and I tell them, I literally started at the bottom. No one seems to actually want to do that though, they just want a…

Totally the parents are allowing co-dependent behavior on both sides.

Despite this looking like ILC and sounding like Bell Biv Devoe, all I want to do right now is listen to Arrested Development. Someone please explain.

People still work with Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. I would say Kevin has a shot at redemption.

Yep. He thinks this will all blow over in a couple of years. And you know what? It might. Because the world is garbage.

I mean...she’s not wrong. On the other hand, the explosion of good content in the TV/streaming realm has largely rendered movies obsolete when it comes to storytelling in the way she is talking about - if I want to see a complex story told with nuance, I’d rather watch it play out over 10 or 12 hours on Netflix than…

AND there will probably be leftovers for the hangover gorging the next day!