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[–]Destresse🇨🇵 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I was approached by people who work for the state to participate in promotional content about my job and line of work. Can you believe that. I wondered why it had to be me, out of the few millions of people in this country, and apparently, I am the only woman in my region who chose to pursue technical studies this year. So they said it'd be good to promote gender equality in the industrial field. I know women are rare in industries, but this is ridiculous lol. The only one. The only one. I won't recover from knowing this. I feel weird now.

[–]julesburm1891 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Do you live in the French equivalent of Wyoming where there are very few people? Because how on earth is there only one woman in your pursuing technical studies? 😂

[–]Destresse🇨🇵 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Right? It must have been some very specific statistic like... How many people of X years old born in X city who studied X thing in 2020-2021 has chosen to pursue technical studies in 2021-2022 lol

Honestly the woman I had on the phone said we met before, so I assume she's the one who put my name in the goblet of fire. I didn't pay enough attention to her to remember her though. Maybe she invented that stat to make me feel unique and good about myself, but that tends to have the opposite effect on me 🤣

[–]julesburm1891 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

“Let me say this thing to make her feel special even though I specifically chose her.”

existential crisis time