If I were to pattern myself after a famous character in a book, I’d pick a heroine that was gorgeous, brilliant and amazingly successful.
I wouldn’t pick Barbara Ehrenreich as she presented herself in “Bait and Switch, the Futile Pursuit of the American Dream.” However, that character seems to have picked me. Try as I might, I can not escape the fact that Ehrenreich’s adventures in that best-selling book are much like my own.
The biggest difference is that I didnt get to write about my failure in the job market and make a bunch of money on book sales. I just got to endure my failure and realize that my life was a statistic.
That’s always fun.
I’ve also read about myself in the pages of the New York Times. (See, I must be famous and they just forgot to tell me!) I’m so flattered when a guy like columnist Paul Krugman writes, “a college degree has hardly been a ticket to big income gainsthe real earnings of college graduates fell more than 5% between 2000 and 2004.”
Paul, I’m glad you know me and I hate to criticize, but you got it wrong. For this college graduate, her income fell...