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What Class Are You Irfan?

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Irfan Sehic and his family fled the war in Bosnia when he was seventeen, and landed in Barre, Vermont. Irfan did a lot of jobs when he got here, then went to college, and now runs an insurance company out of his house. I’ve interviewed Irfan for Rumble Strip before, about the war, which you can find on this site somewhere, but in this story, Irfan talks about the American class system as he sees it, starting with the middle class.

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0:00.0

This is Rumbel Strip and this is Part 3 of What Class Are You?

0:04.2

Irfon Sech and his family fled the war in Bosnia and arrived in Berry, Vermont when

0:09.5

Irfon was 17.

0:11.6

He worked a bunch of different jobs. He went to college and then he started his own

0:15.8

insurance agency which he still runs out of his house. And for the last few years he's been a club

0:21.9

soccer coach.

0:23.0

Irfon lives with his wife and son in Milton, Vermont,

0:26.5

and in this story he describes the American class system

0:30.7

as he sees it, starting with the middle class. Here's their fun.

0:35.0

They get up and it's a suit and tie and the dad is going to work and the mom you know

0:41.6

kisses on the cheek and the energy is like ideal family energy and there

0:47.6

is like two or three kids and maybe a dog and then a dad goes sits in his car and then goes to work and he and it's it's a neighborhood it's just a neighborhood

0:58.0

you know there is trees around and he goes out mom is preparing break is preparing like lunch for kids

1:05.0

as they're off to school and they're eating a breakfast,

1:09.0

which is like cereal and you know some juice

1:12.0

and she's saying, make sure, you know, like lunch, you know some some juice and she's saying make sure you know like lunch you know get the lunch before you get out

1:16.5

Now my question is well how much money do they have saved up?

1:21.6

Right? How much money do you have to saved up? Right?

1:23.0

How much money do you have to save up

1:25.0

that's giving you that comfort

1:27.0

to live like that and just be like,

1:29.0

okay, I'm out of here, you know,

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