And then there was the “resume padding,” as Tyler put it—which involved a lot of volunteering in the community. “We got so much credit from counselors for things like ‘Paint an old person’s house!’ or ‘Rake up leaves!’ when it was essentially me and my friends dicking off for a few hours on a Saturday morning,” Tyler explained. “I guess it just made me much more cynical once I realized that everyone, including adults, were pretty much bullshitting to make themselves look better. I didn’t really feel like I was making people’s lives better. I just felt like a teenager trying to pad his resume
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