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A friend of mine who works as a fashion journalist did an Instagram questions thing the other day and someone asked for career advice and she just openly said & #39;I started out with XX internship, here& #39;s the times my parents gave me money and I also went to private school& #39;
I messaged to say good on her for being honest because so few people are and she replied like & #39;Wouldnt really be fair not to be, I wouldn& #39;t have my job otherwise& #39;. It& #39;s sad that being honest about this stuff still seems like such a radical thing to do
It makes me really sad when I speak to 23 year olds who are really panicked that they aren& #39;t working in the field they want to when they& #39;re usually comparing themselves to someone who& #39;s parents made a second job out of getting their career sorted for them
When people aren& #39;t upfront about privilege it fosters this mentality that others haven& #39;t worked hard enough or been enterprising enough and so don& #39;t deserve to do what they want to do anyway, it& #39;s pretty horrible imo
