No one wants to admit to this but sometimes it is your fault. Your life isn’t going the way you want and it’s your fault. You’ve made some bad decisions or choices and sadly these are the repercussions of your own actions.
Imagine cutting off federal student loans for programs leading to careers overwhelmingly held by women.
Women make up:
• 80% of teaching assistants
• 81–84% of social workers
• 73–80% of counselors
• 79% of elementary/middle-school teachers
• 85% of special-ed teachers
• 92% of hairstylists/cosmetologists
• 93% of childcare workers
Yup, just a coincidence.
being a woman in her mid-20s is just 14 open tabs about your career, when to start retinol, your relationships, and whether moving abroad would fix your entire personality, all while trying to lower your screen time
When you fully understand that your actions can fundamentally alter the world that you experience, your relationship to time is forever changed. A single conversation matters. A single decision, made today, compounds into a future that wouldn't have existed without it.