Those were the days.

The project is getting out of hand... I'm getting way too obsessive... finding more and more which I want to add in.

I wrote this in November of 2000:

In this wonderful society of ours, one of the first questions out of most people's mouths is always, "What do you do?" when they first meet someone. I've always hated that. I hate that a person is judged so quickly by how much money they make.

When you're a kid, "they" tell you that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. They never tell you the truth... that not only can't you be whatever you want, but if you want the wrong thing you'll be seen by society as a piece of dirt... and heaven help you if you ever can't hold down a suitable job, then you're just a piece of shit (raised to "dirt" level if you can manage the job of parenthood/homemaker).

From there, I ranted quite a bit on the subject.