So, I'm guessing Birmingham, Alabama didn't make the list...
THAT explains why I got a cool job so fast! It's also an interesting concept the book deals with. Do you feel hopeful from reading it?
hopeful...yes and no. it's encouraging to see something so individualistic effecting the way business is being done and how people are valued, but it also reinforces the disappearing of the middle class. The roughly 30% that are considered part of the "creative class" are making, on average, about twice as much as the remaining seventy. working with a high-tech credit union with clients like microsoft, intel and nike, I'm definately finding that to be the case. I hear the salary range for people our age in the high tech industry and it's just ridiculous compared to how much others are making elsewhere. You either got it or you don't, and if you don't, good luck.
i find that the more i think precisely about the things i want to do, vocationally,(i.e. parish ministry, social work - counseling, teaching) they all pay pretty badly. so, i probably need the luck.
here, here! let's aspire to lifelong, underpaid creative professions. they've got to make up for it somewhere.
by the way, you rock!
thanks. the welfare folks and thrift store personnel think so, too.
I think we should all be on the John Thompson (Kenner's husband and one of the few friends I have): Go to school on student loans until they equal the amount of whatever life insurance policy we purchase, and then when we die, we break even. Who needs a salary at all?
By the way, was Flower Mound on that list of cities anywhere? 
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