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This reads as an account of the shock that can follow graduation, when adult life does not arrive as dignity or clarity but as awkward work and bruised expectations. The line can be taken to mean that early jobs often expose how far a person is from the identity they imagined for themselves. It lands for anyone taking work they find demeaning while trying to build a life.
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