If you're looking for my words: diary / personal / spilled words / thought
I also run peacelovedope, a typography- and aesthetic-centric Tumblr, as well as houseuponahill, a photography-centric Tumblr.
I love minimalism, the aesthetic of smoking, the human form (especially boobs), and nuns-gone-bad.
What would have happened to me if my blue-collar, immigrant parents had balked when I said I wanted to go to Northwestern University, a hugely expensive school, to study journalism? Even then, it was a poor-paying dinosaur of an industry.
By the Georgetown calculus, my parents made a bad decision. When my first job out of school paid me less than what a year’s tuition cost, that calculus seemed all but confirmed.
I am now 25 years into my career, working at one of the leading media companies in the country and making more money that I ever would have imagined I would. To what do I attribute that success? I love what I do.
"“College majors and their income potential” by Tracy Grant for The Washington Post
I’m considering e-mailing this to my dad or printing it out or even buying the freaking paper just to show my mom, but I don’t know if they would understand what I’m trying to say.
(Source: moonii)
