What kills me is that out of all the statistics, the biggest pay gap is between white men with advanced degrees and Latinas with advanced degrees. That’s me: I have an advanced degree in English literature. 

It’s very painful to think about all the money I haven’t made over the past three decades (I’m 53). With a masters from Cornell I should have earned and saved so much more. I didn’t because I didn’t have the confidence and didn’t think I deserved more. And most likely I didn’t earn more because I am a Mexican American woman and we don’t get the nice salary offers. As The Content Conductor, I’m now my own boss and set my own rate, so I’m doing what I can to make goddamn #$%-ing sure I don’t leave any more money on the table.

I might have another 20 working years in me and I expect to work on my own terms for all of them.