When I lived in Washington, D.C., in my early twenties and faced the inevitable D.C. question, “What do you do?” I would answer truthfully that I was a barista. The next question was equally predictable: “What do you really want to do?” Never mind that I’d turned down a job at a well-regarded think tank to work in a coffee shop. The assumption was that as a young, educated person in the city, I should obviously have aspirations higher than making coffee.
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