My mom is the Senior Executive Assistant
for the Deputy Chancellor of San Jacinto Community College in the Greater
Houston area. It sounds like a fancy, super important title of someone who is
extremely educated. I’m not saying that my mother isn’t intelligent and amazing
at her job, because she is and she is known by those that work with her as
someone who is very good at their job and always makes sure every small detail
is covered, but she doesn’t have a college degree. She never attended college
and never got her associate’s degree, much less a bachelor’s.
It is almost as though she has a
talked of self that portrays a person who is college educated, while her
unexpressed self knows that she does not have a degree. Many of her coworkers believe
she has a degree even though she does not and are surprised when they find out she
doesn’t. Many of the people throughout the college that she works and
communicates with have doctorates or masters, and almost all of them have
bachelor’s degrees. Because of this, she has to create a type of double of
herself to appear as though she does have a degree in order to ensure that
those who don’t know her or her work well still respect her for the quality of
work she does and do not immediately judge her for her lack of degree in such a
high position.
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