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When Career Success Puts You in Conflict With Your Class Origins

I got promoted to manager and now I supervise people who remind me of my parents, and I feel like a traitor every time I have to enforce corporate policies.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional advancement can create ethical conflicts between loyalty to origins and current role requirements.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class identity and class consciousness?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.