Originally Posted by
ThatOwlWoman
No, I don't think they're greedy. I'm not sure why anyone would correlate the desire for a better income with greed, at least as far as middle-class ppl go which all of us are. My husband has a master's and worked in IT his entire career; not many jobs at all in rural Illinois for that. One of his sisters got her BS in mgmt about five years ago. She lives near Springfield IL (the capitol) because she worked for IDOT. She retired last year. The others have associates degrees and work at blue collar type jobs -- truck driver, CAD, surveyor, clerical for a non-profit. They just never had an interest in moving away from their rural roots, churches, etc. Interestingly, one sister-in-law (well, they got divorced but she's still family) has a BS in biology/botany, but she never did anything in that field; she's a dept. manager at Walmart. Despite the science background, she believes that the Biblical version of creation is true and that the Earth is only 6K years old.
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