Cam Vokey Personal Disclosure

Please Skip This Section Unless You’re Really Curious

“Own your privilege, or something.” 

I feel like it’s important here to give you a bit about my financial background. I think transparency about money – not necessarily public transparency – but friendly transparency, is important. Especially among us nerds. Companies don’t want you to talk about your rate or salary with your coworkers because you’ll find out that someone who doesn’t know how to set up their email signature makes $50k more than you, even though you started before them, and you both have the same title. That’ll make you ask for a raise. The man doesn’t like that! 

This section is an opportunity for me to give you a bit about my historical background outside of my career as a secondary point of Bona Fides. And I am desperately seeking your approval. 

So, uh, what about me: I come from a middle class small Massachusetts city. I went to an expensive liberal arts college in western Massachusetts and learned a lot there, but in retrospect, it’s very clear why the drop-out rate was so high. My parents and I each have our own set of loans. I’m very thankful for that support. Also I got an eat-the-rich tattoo in my 30s, so you get the vibe. 

As long as I have been able to work, I have. I started working as a paper boy at 12, grocery store clerk at 14, interned for a boat builder at 15, side-hustled as a tech support person at 16, and worked full-time as a convenience store generalist at 18. After that, I worked as a Summer Stock PA, then a Company Manager, and eventually a Production Manager, then did lots and lots of questionable jobs (we can talk about that offline) until I landed at 3-Legged Dog in 2012. 

I live in Brooklyn and I’ll probably never own property because it’s hard to make enough to pay for themy current bills, let alone save for the future.