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[quote=Anonymous]I was talking to my DD about how I worked in dining hall in college, how it was hot miserable exhausting work, about 10 hours a week paid on top of the time of walking cross campus and changing after each sweaty shift.

Then I got thinking how I spent probably 5 hours a week doing laundry, lugging the dirty laundry to laundry facility, waiting for it to finish and lugging it back to fold.

To get a haircut or pharmacy was a 20 minutes bus ride each way (I didn’t have a car and had never taken a taxi until I was a grad student).

Most students don’t work at my elite university, most had laundry service, and I think many took taxi without much thought.   I realized I probably lost 20 hours+ each week compared to them in sleep, study, and socializing time (and  at an elite university socializing is networking). I got to know my dining hall staff, but all of them were like me and went into low paying passion career like teaching or evolutionary science.

I realize now that those hours lost were another barrier keeping us apart; not intentional I’m sure, but it is what it is. [/quote]

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