Julia Sweeney
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Like they just were terrible with money.
That's how you get ahead.
And you get ahead by making contacts with people.
You got to get in there and know it's not about skills.
It's about who you know.
So she kept pushing me to have a business degree.
And then I didn't want to do that.
I have no interest in that.
I was interested in economics, mostly the economics of the poor.
I was really kind of a socialist, almost communist, like when it was not fashionable, when Reagan was running for president.
So I thought I'll just take an economics class to kind of satisfy my mother, who, by the way, they weren't even paying for my college.
Why was I even listening to them?
But somehow I thought, oh, I have to do what they say, even though I'm paying for my own college.
I know, dutiful daughter.
And I took Economics 101.
And I would say one of my, not big regrets, everything's turned out okay.