Diploma

As weird as it may sound, I almost felt like graduation wasn't real. I mean, it was something I worked toward for SO LONG.

This week I got it in the mail.

I opened the package, pulled it out, and I was pissed. I looked at it and thought of everything I had to do to earn it. The stress, the work, the struggle, the time off from work, the lack of money, the money spent and for what? I was doing the same job, earning the same money, but with more debt thanks to student loans.

Everyone told me throughout my career how being a woman in the industry, it will be an advantage. I called bullshit. I watched man after man being hired over me, despite the fact I have 12 years of working in the industry and they had a mere summer internship under their belt. The "boys club" as it has been referred to.

Even though I wanted to rip it in half at that moment, I didn't. And turns out, I was wrong...