I've never read Fight Club, though I hear tons of people raving about it.
People frequently mistake us for older than we are, particularly if they're in our age group. I kinda poo-poo the idea that we're somehow magically more mature than anybody else.
I wonder if multiplicity hasn't meant we had to pick up a little more responsibility than usual. Most middle-class kids are age actually PARTIED in college; we were busy trying to restructure our system. We've got inner children to take care of, and though they're a helluva lot less difficult than the corporeal kind, they still need some comics and cookies now and again.
In our case, we've ONLY worked those minimum-wage sort of jobs. (Pizza delivery, hotel laundress, sweeping floors, etc.) And when everything was going to shit, we'd think to ourselves, "Well, if we quit, YOU won't get your pizza, or your floors cleaned and OH WILL YOU BE SORRY!"
Someone once said everyone should work in service just to see how it feels. I personally agree. I know some people whose first jobs were working at ritzy golf courses where Japanese dignitaries went, and I always ENVIED THE HELL OUT OF THEM.
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People frequently mistake us for older than we are, particularly if they're in our age group. I kinda poo-poo the idea that we're somehow magically more mature than anybody else.
I wonder if multiplicity hasn't meant we had to pick up a little more responsibility than usual. Most middle-class kids are age actually PARTIED in college; we were busy trying to restructure our system. We've got inner children to take care of, and though they're a helluva lot less difficult than the corporeal kind, they still need some comics and cookies now and again.
In our case, we've ONLY worked those minimum-wage sort of jobs. (Pizza delivery, hotel laundress, sweeping floors, etc.) And when everything was going to shit, we'd think to ourselves, "Well, if we quit, YOU won't get your pizza, or your floors cleaned and OH WILL YOU BE SORRY!"
Someone once said everyone should work in service just to see how it feels. I personally agree. I know some people whose first jobs were working at ritzy golf courses where Japanese dignitaries went, and I always ENVIED THE HELL OUT OF THEM.
--Rogan