Key Points
Talking about societal stigma associated with low-barrier jobs regardless of success in monetary terms, he said, My parents had given up on me..
I was feeling really good about myself because I had a wage, I had access to more money than my friends had access to at that point in time, and I've been precociously greedy for financial independence..
He continued, "You start feeling unnerved when your friends graduate college and get their first job because there is societal stigma around a job which does not have an entry barrier..
Call centre jobs did not require a degree they did not require expertise or proficiency of a certain kind, so societal stigma is there..
You can be in a call center earning 1 lakh per month but a doctor earning 25,000 per month gets more societal acceptance..
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