Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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And in a lot of ways, it paid more than a lot of entry-level work if you had a college degree.
And so that's what I did for years to make ends meet.
And yeah, you know, and I was so...
distressed during that time.
But also, um, I'm so glad that I went through that in retrospect, even though at the time it was horrible, but like,
I just wouldn't I wouldn't be doing what I do and I wouldn't be able to do what I do if I didn't go through that.
And like, you know, you're going through that stuff in your 20s and someone someone comes along and they're like, everything happens for a reason.
Or they're like, they're like, you don't know.
It's going to work out like this is preparing you.
And when I would hear that stuff, I was just like, screw this.
I sometimes joke about this with Republicans or other people.
I was like, honestly, if we actually had guaranteed health care in this country, I may still be doing it.