Unemployed, a grad student rethinks the world of work
I made a distinction between people like Lina, for whom I imagined that place was the destination, and people like myself, for whom I believed it was simply a place to pass through. Back then I thought my future was going to pick me up like a train and carry me everywhere I wanted to go – grad school, a great writing job, and marriage, all before I turned 30. But that wasn’t what life had in mind. […]
I discovered the way I’d been dividing up the world didn’t make any sense. I realized that no train was coming to carry me off, and instead of waiting by the tracks I may as well get going.
