I was questioned the other day about my thoughts regarding the difficulty of the GRE. I mentioned without a flinch that I kicked ass on the math and analytical parts, but suffered dearly on the verbal. I proceeded still unhindered to say I should have pursued my math side, perhaps engineering or something and I would be making a lot more money. I continued as though I had no options writing, "humanitarians are shit on". *click* and send.

These thoughts have crossed my mind often as people quiver over a fear of socialism, boycott shopping for christmas and start reading books on growing their own food. We definitely live in a society where worth is measured by the size of your pay check. If you make LOTS of money, you must be working hard and have made good choices in life. If you don't make lots of money, well, it's your own fault for not working hard enough or making choices that didn't land you in those top/high paying positions.

.....as people quiver over the fear of socialism. I don't measure worth that way and never have. I've always admired intensely the work of a laboreror, as without his/her hands and muscles, what would we have really? Those people who show up to dunkin donuts every morning at 3am so they can have all your coffee and donuts ready for when drive your lincoln to the bank. Those AMAZING people that work the all night shift at a gas station. The people who clean up the streets, who plow our snowy roads, who trim back the trees, who put roofs on our houses, who help us pick up and move so many heavy things......

Many of these people do this work, long days, for years and years just scraping by. Why? We NEED them. I believe anyone willing to put in the hours and effort of work deserve to do well for themselves. The deserve to be able to buy a nice house, land, vacation every year and go to a salon to get their hair done if they choose.

I do write this with some bitter taste. As I am one of those who DID go to college, who DID receive a master's degree, who DOES work hard and in fact works TWO jobs and extra hours when I can and REALITY... I have to plan for all my pennies and do without. Why is MY worth measured so poorly? Humanitarians are shit on. Some where along the way it was decided by others that my profession isn't worth much. See, I could have been an engineer! My brother is and he makes 4 times the money as me. I have no savings or retirement plans, plenty of debt and really, really can't see affording going back to school as I'm still (10 years later) paying for my last education. Funny how colleges do seem to put the same worth on all paths.

I don't fear socialism. But I do fear people isolating in absurd wealth.