{"id":12407,"date":"2015-03-01T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/kennethandejeski\/?p=148"},"modified":"2015-03-01T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:09:22","slug":"tells-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/tells-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Tells me:"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Banker<\/strong> tells me that I am a loan. I have borrowed money [on interest] in order to pursue and obtain my degree. I need to pay it back.<\/p>\n

The Economist<\/strong> tells me that my net worth is less than zero. My college debt is greater than my yearly income; my credit card debt is greater than the money in my bank account. I am an investment, but my yields to not meet expectations. I am quite literally on income-based repayment and the government does not expect payment.<\/p>\n

My conservative uncle<\/strong> tells me that my education is a joke, my ideology is flawed and I need to get a job that will make more money. I complain and white about fabricated injustices that are little more than distractions. The work is aim to do is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Challenge Detroit<\/strong> tells me that I am a changemaker. I have unlimited potential and my perspective matters. Challenge provides me with resources, a network and a platform to put my ideas into action to\u00a0make an impact.<\/h3>\n

This time last year, I was scraping by. Trying to make enough money to pay for rent, \u00a0working three to four part-time jobs a day and taking every $5 research study I could just to afford a meal that day while I waited for my SNAP benefits to be reinstated; I battled depression and listlessness as a I lost touch with the reality\u00a0of my capability to change the world.<\/p>\n

I thank Challenge Detroit, Deirdre, Shelley, my DTE co-workers and the rest of my CD family for believing in me; for giving me the chance to find myself; for letting me grow during what has been the most influential year of my life.<\/p>\n

Here’s to the rest of Year 3. *Cheers*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Banker tells me that I am a loan. I have borrowed money [on interest] in order to pursue and obtain my degree. I need to pay it back. The Economist tells me that my net worth is less than zero. My college debt is greater than my yearly income; my credit card debt is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}