So then, I wonder how much of the bitching about people on unemployment not wanting to take jobs really means "Won't take poorly compensated jobs." Which means corporations can't drive wages lower.

Cause if it's take the job or lose the unemployment altogether, you're kind of in a rough spot unless you have an in.

re: kids and food

mac has no interest in helping make or really adding new things to his diet. He sees me eat a hell of a lot more than he does.

semi-related - Food Update -

The woman who cleans my place every two weeks took 2 bags of stuff! WHOOT! I won't list it all here, but it takes care of a LOT!

It is hot and humid today and my a/cs are just not cutting it. I need to turn them down while the west sun is hitting my windows.

I am DONE at work, no more in the office. Still a lot to do though.

The other place there is a lot to do? My bedroom wrt packing.

15 ebay auctions sold (the cookie jar stayed at $55) and 5 more are selling. YAY!

Everywhere? California never asked me to. There was a box on my forms, but it was not checked for me.

In both Maryland and Washington, I was. And both told me they could at any time require me to send in proof that I was doing so--Washington did, at one point, require me to send in that proof. (Maryland never did, but I was still supposed to be keeping the log)

I, on the other hand, am a complete dick who feels entitled to leave work 40 minutes early because everyone else is gone, and I've pretty much done all I can without people giving me stuff, and I'm kinda lonely and want to start my weekend!

Leave early, DJ. Embrace the dick!

Erin, insent.

In Fogelson Food News, the DH used up five of our zucchini (Thank God)in some delicious turkey chili he made yesterday. So yum over spaghetti and we have enough for four more meals. This whole "growing our own food" thing is an idea which might just catch on!

Everywhere? California never asked me to. There was a box on my forms, but it was not checked for me.

In NY, I had to physically go into the office every two or three weeks and talk to them. It was supposedly a random checking system, but it was very regular for me.

I looked at the article -- not so sure he should have turned down the job, but more because it sounds like he needs some experience. Not just work experience , but work wold experience.

My first years of employment were not anything that directly gave me experience in my chosen field, but they helped me develop a lot of professional skills and a basic idea of how the working world works.

My first years of employment were not anything that directly gave me experience in my chosen field, but they helped me develop a lot of professional skills and a basic idea of how the working world works.

Exactly this.

You know, I was thinking that it is unusual for a person to work themselves up from admin to something else at my uni, but I forgot that I had several years working in theatre before that, so I was not a shiny new grad with possibilities, I was lucky to get a job as an admin, what with my experience being in theatre and retail.