March 15, 2009

Another take on the recession

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Another take on the recession

Andrew Sullivan’s compilation of different readers’ views of the recession continues.

I’m an American in my early 20s the ink on my Ivy League diploma not yet dry plunging into my first job. I’m writing to say that I am doing just fine in the recession. My company is hiring, the economy is still growing at an impressive clip, and the hope and optimism that tomorrow will be even better than today is palpable.
I can say this because I didn’t follow my fellow college grads to Wall Street in search of money that was so abundant and so certain that it seemed too good to be true (as it turned out to be). While my friends went to Manhattan; I went to Mumbai…

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Another take on the recession

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