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I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Bachelor Careers Classmates College Degree Earnings Eventually Family First Go Had Jobs Luxury Master Pay Position Real Taking Them Then Through Unpaid Using Way Who Work Would

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I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Books Cat Creative Creative Writing Critically Days Degree Food Get Happily Living Local Master Nine Out Paid Paper Pet Published Quite Shelves Successful Toilet Toilet Paper True Two Who Writer Writing

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I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Being Believe Happy Hungry Just Life My Life Myth Poor Poorest Really Times

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There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: About Buying Doing Extra Front Groceries Like Little Live Lose Much Only Paycheck Paying Rent Right Rolls Simplicity Something Soothing Treat Very You

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In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Alive Attitudes Beach Control Dog Economic Emotional Fact Free Going Often Only Our People Philosophical Psychological Say She Spend Still The Only Thing Then Thing Times Today True Truly Uncertainty Walking Whether

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I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Becoming Dirty Dreamed Gets Going Gotten Grandfather Great Hands Home Kind Makes Message Necessary Parents Qualify Real Real Work Respectable Said Starting Sweat Thing Wanted Whenever Work Write Writer Writing You Your

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Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Adult Alleged Always Attempt Becoming Cholesterol Commercials Disease Exercise Feeble Felt Health Heart Heart Disease High Least Like Make Me Off Should Since Terrible Things Thus Want 1980S

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When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Away Bikes Confirmation Dust Existential Fall Full Go Humans Just Nowhere Pedal People Riding Room See Spiral Stationary Universe I See 1970S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 8th, 1971

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