Reading that makes me angry. As a former ditch-digger, construction laborer, retail associate, airline baggage handler, and furniture mover, I had to scratch and claw my way for 10 years to finally get an engineering position at Google.
This woman seems to have every life opportunity handed to her in a silver plate since the day she was born that all she had to do is work hard and not fuck it up. I know people who are brilliant and work immensely hard but just do not have the socioeconomic status and/or luck to even get an interview.
She just threw away something that millions of people would literally kill for. Something that I, as recently as 4 years ago, would literally kill for.
I'm sure if a starving child in Africa read your post they would be angry that someone went out of their way to get angry over another person making very personal decision. There are greater things in life to angry over than another person making a decision which they believe will make them happier.
Just because you can't seem to fathom how someone might leave behind a cushy job does not give you the right to be judgemental. World is a suckier place when people can't seem to see the world without their tunnel vision.
This is exactly why making decisions like she did is so difficult. Because people judge you and are angry at you just because you are different and you don't want what they want.
I am sure that you had some big difficulties in your life and you achieved your goal anyway - it must have been very hard and I admire you for that. But you should try to understand her - her problems are very different than yours but I can imagine that those might be even harder to deal with.
And let me (just for fun) go even farther and provide unsolicited interpretation. Does your anger have anything to do with the possibility that you have the same issue that she had, value (subconsciously) your successes based on how others perceive them and her article 'devalued' what you achieved and triggered defensive reaction?
This woman seems to have every life opportunity handed to her in a silver plate since the day she was born that all she had to do is work hard and not fuck it up. I know people who are brilliant and work immensely hard but just do not have the socioeconomic status and/or luck to even get an interview.
She just threw away something that millions of people would literally kill for. Something that I, as recently as 4 years ago, would literally kill for.