Or to faculty?
Obviously, rideshare driving has a major stigma among some or many people.
Yet, admittedly, a college student or alum likely wouldn't want their driver to announce to pax and the general public that he or she is a grad of that college. Doesn't look good for the institution when a student is paying tens of thousands of dollars per year in tuition and room and board, yet a grad needs to drive rideshare or maybe any low-level job. Even if driving a luxury car and owning a home -- whether part-time or full-time, for whatever reasons.
Am I being silly? Elitist?
I simply don't admit I'm a grad, from long, long ago, of a local college when I'm driving students, parents or faculty affiliated with that institution.
Most here and elsewhere might bark: "I don't give a bleep what my pax or anyone else thinks of me and my job or career!"
Well...I do care. Especially so as not to taint the image of the college.
And likewise when I drove a cab for years, I was sensitive to criticism from riders, and society in general.
I had a white Boston College male years ago in my cab declare that taxi driving is a job for "n people." I didn't even call him out on that word. Maybe I should have? Most decent people would...especially nowadays? He declare he was going to graduate BC and "be somebody!" Quite impressed with his white privilege, I guess.
A young male taxi pax years ago, a student or alum from my college, demanded to know why I'm driving a taxi as an alum, especially full-time and for so many years.
And a middle-aged white female taxi pax years ago declared: "You sound like you're from Southie!" I am not. Yes, she implied I'm from the projects there and don't sound educated. When I mentioned I have a BA in economics from a good but not great school, she updated with:
"Oh...oh...so you are smart!"
I could never say that anyone, that they sound like from a certain class of area. Can't people filter their thoughts as an adult?
Yes, Boston is elitist, in a positive and negative way...waaay more than most American cities. We tend to look down on most cities in America. Riiiight?
(I'm a white male, 1st generation, born in America, though I didn't grow up in New England, but am very happy and very lucky to be here.)
I, and some or many, local or not, believe folks in parts of Boston and parts of New England are elitist, and I guess with good reason, as it has the best or near-best of everything in many categories. But sometimes judging people who've graduated college, yet need to do inferior jobs like rideshare or taxi driving later in life, whether full-time or part-time, seems a bit excessive in the Boston area and a few other parts of the country. I guess I am guilty at times.
Or do some on this site proudly proclaim they're a college grad to those students and fellow alums in your car, the reputation of your college be damned?
Obviously, rideshare driving has a major stigma among some or many people.
Yet, admittedly, a college student or alum likely wouldn't want their driver to announce to pax and the general public that he or she is a grad of that college. Doesn't look good for the institution when a student is paying tens of thousands of dollars per year in tuition and room and board, yet a grad needs to drive rideshare or maybe any low-level job. Even if driving a luxury car and owning a home -- whether part-time or full-time, for whatever reasons.
Am I being silly? Elitist?
I simply don't admit I'm a grad, from long, long ago, of a local college when I'm driving students, parents or faculty affiliated with that institution.
Most here and elsewhere might bark: "I don't give a bleep what my pax or anyone else thinks of me and my job or career!"
Well...I do care. Especially so as not to taint the image of the college.
And likewise when I drove a cab for years, I was sensitive to criticism from riders, and society in general.
I had a white Boston College male years ago in my cab declare that taxi driving is a job for "n people." I didn't even call him out on that word. Maybe I should have? Most decent people would...especially nowadays? He declare he was going to graduate BC and "be somebody!" Quite impressed with his white privilege, I guess.
A young male taxi pax years ago, a student or alum from my college, demanded to know why I'm driving a taxi as an alum, especially full-time and for so many years.
And a middle-aged white female taxi pax years ago declared: "You sound like you're from Southie!" I am not. Yes, she implied I'm from the projects there and don't sound educated. When I mentioned I have a BA in economics from a good but not great school, she updated with:
"Oh...oh...so you are smart!"
I could never say that anyone, that they sound like from a certain class of area. Can't people filter their thoughts as an adult?
Yes, Boston is elitist, in a positive and negative way...waaay more than most American cities. We tend to look down on most cities in America. Riiiight?
(I'm a white male, 1st generation, born in America, though I didn't grow up in New England, but am very happy and very lucky to be here.)
I, and some or many, local or not, believe folks in parts of Boston and parts of New England are elitist, and I guess with good reason, as it has the best or near-best of everything in many categories. But sometimes judging people who've graduated college, yet need to do inferior jobs like rideshare or taxi driving later in life, whether full-time or part-time, seems a bit excessive in the Boston area and a few other parts of the country. I guess I am guilty at times.
Or do some on this site proudly proclaim they're a college grad to those students and fellow alums in your car, the reputation of your college be damned?