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Pointing Fingers vs Biting Bullets

I start this post off by tipping my hat to the multifunctional full-timers holding down many jobs. This includes 24/7 parents, freelancing side hustlers and the unemployed who are looking for work. Making sure I count my blessings for having a day job, I try to remain positive about the various aspects I could take from what I do. Long story short, I work at a bank. The skills I have learned along with the financial experience can allow me to write some personal finance articles to the up-and-coming genereations who, hopefully, will have some sort of financial resource to start with. I say this not to be mean, but to be real. Not everyone's situation is the same. A set of parents may have set aside some type of account or trust for their child/children for financial stability while another family, despite limited resources, put forth whatever effort (and energy) to give their kids all they've got with what little they have. Either way, someone is doing something as times are ge

Black and Awkward...Oh Well

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While my original plan was to work on some outlines for future projects, I spent an hour in the library watching Awkward Black Girl on Youtube. I mad that this web series started back in February and I'm just now finding out about it from the Poughkeepsie Journal . Just from the name itself, I didn't know what to expect. Issa rae, the director, writer, and producer of the web series, stated in an interview that the reason she created the show was because she couldn't find anyone on TV she could relate to. I couldn't agree more. I rarely see this type of original, down-to-earth entertainment on television anymore. For this show, awkward isn't a bad thing. I consider it more avant-garde. It seems that the majority of the characters Rae created are putting J on the outside, therefore J acts like the outsider. When she unknowingly brings a few close people inside her world (Fred, CeCe, White J), she doesn't know how to navigate life after the fact. I love how her