They Said I Was Just a Plumber and Didn’t Invite Me for Christmas Until I Cut Off the Tuition They Relied On

or give some vague answer about me being in the trades, which technically was accurate in the way that technically accurate answers are designed to discourage follow-up questions.

The pattern was not ambiguous once I looked at it clearly. She had been treating me as a resource and managing me as an embarrassment for as long as she had been in law school.continue reading …