An Argentine journalist cannot get a job in his profession and, in order to cover his expenses, he decided to use the savings his grandmother left him to buy a car and work as a driver for Cabify in Buenos Aires.
So far, a story like many similar ones that occur in an Argentina in economic crisis, where work is not abundant, especially in professions such as journalists.
However, what happened to Mauro Grande, the young man in question, went much further, because it shows that in the South American country there is a broken society.
Grande used the social network LinkedIn, the same one he has been using for a long time to try to get a job (and he can’t do it), to tell what happened to him with two passengers, as young as he is, who They made fun of him for working as a driver for Cabify.
Then, in dialogue with a local media, he also reported: “I stopped at a gas station (petrol station) because I couldn’t stop crying.”
Journalist drives a Cabify and unscrupulous passengers make him cry
As reported in LinkedInGrande dropped off a passenger and, within minutes, received a notification to pick up two people at a tennis club in Buenos Aires.
“The first thing I thought when they asked me what I had studied was that they wanted to start a conversation between people of similar ages,” said the young man.
And he added: “They were struck by the fact that, despite my youth, I was driving a Cabify.”
“After telling them what my profession was, they told me: ‘Journalist? And are you driving a Cabify?’. They both laughed and made mocking comments. I spent the remaining 20 minutes of the trip with a lump in my throat and not wanting to hear what they were saying”, wrote.
“When I arrived, I heard ‘It’s a thousand pesos, take 10 pesos more as a tip so you can continue like this, journalist’. I didn’t finish booting up and started crying. I had to stop at a service station because I couldn’t continue,” he said.
In Cabify because he doesn’t have a job from what he studied
Then, to the media, Grande reported that she has been driving a Cabify for less than a month.
He bought the car with some savings left to him by his grandmother, a key person in his decision to finish his journalism career.
“I live with my father. My mom died of cancer when I was eleven years old. She wanted her not to be in this world of journalism, because I always wanted to read magazines and listen to radio programs”, story.
At the end of last year he received his degree and unsuccessfully searched for work these months.
“I applied to LinkedIn for all the searches that appeared (…) but when I no longer had contacts I decided to look for something else,” he said.
In LinkedIn counted: “I was struggling with my head. Of feeling frustrated for not being able to be doing anything related to journalism in a medium. It was and is hard, that’s why I decided to go out and make trips with Cabify to earn a decent living until something of what I received appears”.
And he added: “I don’t know if these two kids studied or will study, I’m not interested either, but contempt for the other for a profession or for not being able to practice is harmful. They do not know who is driving and how much such a comment can affect. If you are passengers of someone, whether or not you have a profession, do not take the fact of being a driver as something unworthy. It is quite the opposite, it is worthy, it is rowing until it appears in what you received”.
The young man’s publication went viral, with more than 2,700 reactions and nearly 500 comments. “You cried because you care, because you love him. I, in addition to being a computer engineer, am an agronomy technician, and in the summers I also worked at Cabify”, commented a user.
Another widely shared comment: “Their comments are about them, not you. Work dignifies and what you do is honor yourself by being able to face adversity through the honesty of work”.
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