• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    He’s been here for twenty years. He made 500k last year. He’s a big advocate of pulling yourself up from your bootstraps. That’s his story as an immigrant from Mexico who had nothing and now has a good career.

    More Americans could learn from immigrants and pulling themselves up instead of expecting things to come to them.

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      1 year ago

      You know the phrase pulling yourself up by your boot straps was first invented to make fun of people like you? Lmao

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        1 year ago

        Someone is awfully judgy. He’s a traveling nurse. He goes from assignment to assignment.

        I’m only at that house a few weeks out of the year. So I have no issue renting a room to a good cause.

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            How is that an own? I provide temporary living to traveling nurses.

            That’s smart living. I’m there about two weeks every quarter. They want a home to live in. Works great for everyone.

            If you think being successful is an own, then I own it.