I think you should look at thetathx1138's post, a few below this one. Notice the boxes that say "This is different!" "IS NOT!" "IS TOO!"
That's where we are. You are in America. You DO choose your lot in life. If your choice is to "do what you are called to do" then you can do that in many different places, many different cities. If you have a health issue/disability, that doesn't mean you are forced to live on a street where you can't sleep. Every city/town has facilities that aid people in that situation. And "close to familial support"? MOVE ONE STREET AWAY. Now, if you're a quadrapaligic in a coma, perhaps you don't have much of a say, but if you are at all mobile and living at least mostly on your own, you don't need to live that close that you hear the bus's announcements of stops. You just choose not to move and choose to complain. I choose to respond to you.
And you think I live a guilded life? Hah! think again. My father had a wife, a 1-year old baby, and another (me) on the way, had just put a down payment on a house and got laid off. He had to move from being a junior sales person making a very mediocre salary, barely getting along, to being a grade school custodian, pouring sawdust on children's vomit in the public school hallways. He was the sole breadwinner until my mom started work when I was in the 4th grade as a tailor in a local clothing store for enough money to feed our little family. I knew noone in the "business world" yet it was the only career I was apparently cut out for. Since I had no experience or anyone to ask about how the business world works, I got laid off/canned/lost business-political battles all over the place. Don't go telling me that I have options that you don't have...There is NO advantage to being a woman in today's world. The only advantage is if you are willing to sacrifice your morals and self-respect to kow-tow to some idiotic boss. Which I didn't do, and thus got laid off/canned/etc. What options do I have that others don't? Here's the "option" I always had to live by: "Deal". or "Don't deal". and "Don't deal" usually had others look at me and say "oh, you can deal" and ignore me, thus I had to Deal even if I couldn't.
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That's where we are. You are in America. You DO choose your lot in life. If your choice is to "do what you are called to do" then you can do that in many different places, many different cities. If you have a health issue/disability, that doesn't mean you are forced to live on a street where you can't sleep. Every city/town has facilities that aid people in that situation. And "close to familial support"? MOVE ONE STREET AWAY. Now, if you're a quadrapaligic in a coma, perhaps you don't have much of a say, but if you are at all mobile and living at least mostly on your own, you don't need to live that close that you hear the bus's announcements of stops. You just choose not to move and choose to complain. I choose to respond to you.
And you think I live a guilded life? Hah! think again. My father had a wife, a 1-year old baby, and another (me) on the way, had just put a down payment on a house and got laid off. He had to move from being a junior sales person making a very mediocre salary, barely getting along, to being a grade school custodian, pouring sawdust on children's vomit in the public school hallways. He was the sole breadwinner until my mom started work when I was in the 4th grade as a tailor in a local clothing store for enough money to feed our little family. I knew noone in the "business world" yet it was the only career I was apparently cut out for. Since I had no experience or anyone to ask about how the business world works, I got laid off/canned/lost business-political battles all over the place. Don't go telling me that I have options that you don't have...There is NO advantage to being a woman in today's world. The only advantage is if you are willing to sacrifice your morals and self-respect to kow-tow to some idiotic boss. Which I didn't do, and thus got laid off/canned/etc. What options do I have that others don't? Here's the "option" I always had to live by: "Deal". or "Don't deal". and "Don't deal" usually had others look at me and say "oh, you can deal" and ignore me, thus I had to Deal even if I couldn't.