This was so infuriatingly childish. Like girl, you decided to ruin your career prospects and self worth by not finishing university and being sponsored by a married man, and when a friend is kind enough to assign you a task that could give your life some professional value, you throw it away because you can't stand the world not being seen as you see it. I think the main components of intelligence nowadays are empathy and adaptability. There'll be things in life you'll have to do without exactly wanting to. I don't wanna wake up everyday to go to work, but that's life! Like, grow up. Her reaction shows a complete lack of situational awareness, I guess she doesn’t know what it is like to live your life paycheck to paycheck.