The 9-to-5 job: Challenging how we earn a living
(This is Part III in a series about challenging traditional measures of financial success. Part I was The âIvory Towerâ: Reconsidering the college investment. Part II was Challenging traditional measures of financial success: Homeownership.)
It was the first semester of my first year of college. My friend and I were driving around our small town, looking for something to eat. But we didn’t have much money, so our options were limited. Chili’s sounded good, but neither of us could really afford it.
“It’s weird to think one day we won’t have to worry about this,” my friend said. “In a few years, we’ll graduate, and we’ll have jobs that pay us like, $30,000 a year and we can go to Chili’s whenever we want.”