justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/23/20 at 22:58:34:Yeah, Mike, a life of undeserved and unearned high position, gifted you because you're white.. Good job, you did what was necessary to take care of your family.
Facetiousness aside my life has always resembled a sad Country song. The crap I've been through! But I don't let it define my existence and I'm well aware others have had it worse off and turned out even more successful than myself.
But then there's those that resign themselves to their fate.
I have never had anything handed to me. My father passed away recently and didn't leave me a red cent. At every turn I've been bent over and jerked around and crapped on. And mostly by my own kind that are better off than me. Being from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks hasn't endeared me to anyone along the way. I've certainly never had anyone stop to help me with a darn thing - ever.
If there's such a thing as white privilege then I must not be white because it certainly never done squat for me.
I've fought tooth and nail working since I was 13 years old to get away from the squalor I grew up with. At some point along the way other poor people started treating me as someone else. Someone they didn't approve of. And people who weren't poor still looked down on me. I've felt like a social outcast most of my adult life because I don't fit in anywhere. People I came from only see me as a walking ATM machine and people I'm surrounded by now treat me as a loser. Old coworkers and work friends from 20 years ago that started out at the same level as me then are all middle to upper management and even CEOs and business owners nowadays meanwhile I'm still in the same position I was then. Just a Senior role now though. And that works against me because companies dont want senior level people who earn more money.
Job search results across the country typically look like this now.
Entry level - 15000 jobs
1-3 yrs experience - 23000 jobs
3-5 yrs - 33000 jobs
5-10 yrs - 4500 jobs
10+ yrs - 334 jobs
I'm at 20 yrs still doing the same crap. It took me an entire year to find a new job last time I was out of work. All of 2018.
And now they're making it even harder with this D&I bullcrap.
Sometimes I feel like I've spent my life spitting into the wind.
But mostly I'm just thankful I'm not poor anymore.
They sent another mass email about taking the still voluntary pledge today. This time with instructions for telling the company you're going to take it.
I predict it will become mandatory next month....