17 March, 2019

Jaimie Leigh on how people achieve unearned success

I’m gathering from my feed that this whole college admissions scandal is really shocking to a lot of people.
Well, sit down, babies, because I’m about to deal you a hard blow.
This is nothing.
I think a lot of people seriously have no idea how thoroughly the system is rigged. I spent several years as a for-hire writer who couldn’t afford to turn work away. This means I accepted a lot of jobs I feel icky about now, but it also means that I’ve seen firsthand how this all shakes out.