With three jobs, if you don't want to trade your life for money, you could easily quit one.
Unless you're working three jobs and still just barely making ends meet.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Feb 10, 2005 6:16:33 pm PST #6109 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
P.M. Marc - Feb 10, 2005 6:19:38 pm PST #6110 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I thought about this and I feel different about someone working 90 hours with three jobs, versus one job. With one job, it's so hard to get off the treadmill -- new job search, career things, etc. With three jobs, if you don't want to trade your life for money, you could easily quit one.
The woman in question was working three jobs to make ends meet. I know very few people who work multiple steady jobs for any other reason.
Noumenon - Feb 10, 2005 6:20:48 pm PST #6111 of 10002
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Unless you're working three jobs and still just barely making ends meet.
To "stay afloat" is the stated motivation of only 2.5% of people with multiple jobs, according to some book called Cowboy Capitalism. They're mostly paying down debt.
Typo Boy - Feb 10, 2005 6:24:56 pm PST #6112 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, but if you are a single mom and working three jobs it's probably because you are trading your life in for food, rent , heat and medical care' so quitting one job is an option only in the sense that not paying rent is an option.
Typo Boy - Feb 10, 2005 6:28:33 pm PST #6113 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh and "Cowboy Capitalism" is put out by the Cato Institute. I'd be really careful about accepting statistics from that source. There is first the question of whether they are true. And secondly there are also lots of ways for true things to be misleading (for example using means or averages rather than median).
aurelia - Feb 10, 2005 6:28:56 pm PST #6114 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I know very few people who work multiple steady jobs for any other reason.
Likewise. I think an increasing number of people are being forced to work multiple jobs because of businesses switching full-time positions to part-time or temp to reduce their benefits costs.
Kat - Feb 10, 2005 6:32:08 pm PST #6115 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And actually, I had the same thought you did about the non-librarian; then again, am a non-librarian in the library system, so it pinged as an obvious screwup to me.
Thank you for getting my back, amych!
quester - Feb 10, 2005 6:38:27 pm PST #6116 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Hil -
is this the first time that Kerry's mentioned why she needs to use a crutch? I remember wondering before, and I don't remember it being directly named, but I'm not sure.
What was the reason? I don't watch but now I'm dying to know!
Hil R. - Feb 10, 2005 6:42:26 pm PST #6117 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
quester, it's congenital hip dysplasia . (I have no idea why I'm whitefonting that, but I figure I'll continue with the whitefonting thing on this topic, since I started it.)
quester - Feb 10, 2005 6:44:37 pm PST #6118 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Oh! Thanks! Not that I have the faintest idea what that is, but now we know!