I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen. Seaweed snacks were always empty. Nobody had those telltale…

Not sure if this is the best comm for this post, but it really hit home with me, and is getting some good discussion in my circles.

  • CoconutOctopus [it/its]
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    4 years ago

    According to her bio, she was a high-school drop-out, but graduated from UC Berkeley. She notes that one of the differences between her and her cow-orkers is that she was paying off college loans, and they weren't. But I think the overall discussion of differences is about growing up poor, not about staying poor while working in tech.