{"id":110637,"date":"2022-03-11T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110637"},"modified":"2022-03-11T23:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T05:05:59","slug":"a-womans-response-to-kim-ks-career-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110637","title":{"rendered":"A Woman\u2019s Response To Kim K\u2019s Career Advice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110637\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=110637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110638 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Kardashian-Cover-Story-Variety-16x9-7-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Kardashian-Cover-Story-Variety-16x9-7-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Kardashian-Cover-Story-Variety-16x9-7.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Nikki Slusher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Variety this week the Kardashian\u2019s announced they are returning to reality TV this year on Hulu. While we\u2019ve been keeping up with them for way too long, it doesn\u2019t come as a shock that they are ready to come back to our screens. This should\u2019ve been the biggest news coming out of the interviews, however, it is Kim Kardashian\u2019s response to one question in particular that has gotten all of the attention.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about what it takes to succeed as a woman in business, Kim K decided to offer up some very unhelpful advice. \u201cI have the best advice for women in business,\u201d she said while sitting between her mom and sisters. What secrets would she reveal to help all of us be as successful as the whole KarJenner clan? Kardashian continued, \u201cGet your fucking ass up and work.\u201d Considering most Americans work in an office-like setting, this part may be hard to follow if you have to sit at a desk eight hours a day. I digress\u2026.Sure, that advice isn\u2019t completely awful. But it got significantly worse when she followed up her advice with, \u201cIt seems like nobody wants to these days.\u201d I\u2019ll hold it here for a second while we all collectively cackle at her closing statement. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s get back to business. Kardashian\u2019s statement is quite rich coming from an almost billionaire who achieved fame on a reality TV show with her entire family. Even in the earliest seasons of the series viewers were shown a family that lived a life of wealth and privilege. Also having Robert Kardashian as a father was a bonus. Then there\u2019s her sex-tape being publicly released that helped shoot the \u201cself-made\u201d businesswoman into the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear \u2013 just because a woman makes (and most likely releases) her own adult film does not make her any less than a woman who hasn\u2019t. We do not need to shame sex workers in this dialogue. But for someone who makes millions off of each Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter post her \u201cadvice\u201d fails to provide working women any form of insight into being as successful as the KarJenners. That\u2019s because it wasn\u2019t advice \u2013 it was more of a snide remark. A distasteful one at best.<\/p>\n<p>At 27 years-old, I have spent a majority of my adult life getting four college degrees while simultaneously paying for my own living expenses. There were times where I worked retail, food service, and even picked up any small gigs I could to make a quick buck. During holidays there were Thanksgivings, Christmas\u2019, and New Years (which is also my birthday) where I showed up to my scheduled shifts \u2013 sometimes working the retail job then immediately going to my serving job to work both for the holiday. I can\u2019t even tell you how many days I spent working 12+ hours to go home and do the coursework for five classes. I also held an internship every semester of college from sophomore year in undergrad through my second year in grad school.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating in the middle of the pandemic in 2020 \u2013 where the job I had lined up after graduation was lost due to funding reductions from COVID-19 \u2013 I immediately applied to every job I could find that was even open and\/or hiring. Even though I ended up with employment, it is still not the career I truly desired and spent endless days and nights over the last nine years working towards. I work seven days a week operating my teams; yes, seven because I am always on call on what is supposed to be my *one* day each week. Since I\u2019m salaried it doesn\u2019t matter how many hours I do or don\u2019t work. I don\u2019t get overtime, have benefits through my employer, and am struggling to even live paycheck to paycheck. I also make less money than my male counterparts in the same position who have: 1) less education and 2) less experience than me.<\/p>\n<p>I share all of that not to belittle my employer or for a \u201cwoe is me, pity me\u201d story; but because I think my story is one that I believe resonates with the majority of working class Americans \u2013 even more specifically working class women. So when reading Kim\u2019s interview I was intrigued as to what crossed her mind when she claimed that \u201cno one\u201d wants to work. I\u2019m not sure who Kim was referring to, but it surely isn\u2019t with real-life business women.<\/p>\n<p>For a woman who offers unpaid internships to run her errands, who lives wealthier than almost seven billion people, and who told everyone to stay home during the pandemic from the comfort of her own multi-million private island rental, the idea that *we* don\u2019t wanting to work is a farcical outlook. While everyone scrambled to figure out how to avoid eviction, Kim was flying on jets, taking photoshoots after a glam squad styled her, and posting it to social media.<\/p>\n<p>In closing my final thoughts, here is one business woman\u2019s advice to her \u2013 shut up. I\u2019m sorry to sound audacious but I don\u2019t see any of Kim or her sisters getting up to work their $10\/hour job (or jobs since many Americans work two) to make ends meet while not receiving benefits, paid time off, and having to cover necessary expenses like rent, food, and childcare. Especially since most working women with children don\u2019t have three live-in nannies to help. So to Kim and any other multimillionaire who wants to offer up some advice next time, maybe do us working business women a favor and don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nikki Slusher In an interview with Variety this week the Kardashian\u2019s announced they are returning to reality TV this year on Hulu. While we\u2019ve been keeping up with them for way too long, it doesn\u2019t come as a shock that they are ready to come back to our screens. 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