Occupy

Ideologically, I am totally in support of the major tenets of the Occupy movement.

Personally though, I have no reasonable way to lend my support for these people. I have a job, I've never been unemployed for more than a few months since getting out of high school, I am in no threat of losing my job or being without one long term, I work for a Fortune 500 company that operates in two of the fields (retail pharmacy and prescription insurance) that take advantage of the 99%, I don't have a degree and thus no outstanding student loans, and the main reason I don't have a better paying job is because the one I have doesn't pay very well, but that's mostly my fault.

I haven't done "all the right things" as they say and I'm no more than a 27-year-old who is tired of politics-as-usual and corporate America feeding those politics. I realize that being there to show solidarity is really all the protesters would want, and that my grievances are sufficient for me to be involved, but I can't really consider myself a member of their ranks. And maybe that's my problem.

Jam it back in, in the dark.