The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed by David Dvorkin.
The great ebb and flow of the marketplace has recently forced me to try to convince myself of the benefits of being unemployed.
Some of those benefits are obvious, and I could have anticipated them even before a supervisor tapped me on the shoulder and said he needed to talk to me about something. ("Do you have a minute?" he asked. What would have happened if I'd said no, that I was too busy?)
e.p.c. posted this at 11:56 GMT on 1-Oct-2003 .
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I'm not exactly happy with the current administration. Ok, I'm appalled. It goes beyond partisan differences (I tolerated and even respected Bush I). There's just something very wrong with the direction Bush II is taking (not leading) the US. It's the credit card mentality (charge now, let someone else worry about paying it off). It's the all-taxes-are-evil mentality (what, we can get armed services, civil services, and other benefits of government for free?). It's the bitter partisan if-you-are-not-with-us then you must be a traitor mentality. I haven't rked in over a year yet I've been giving money to the
Dean campaign. Am I certain he's the right, absolute 100% perfect candidate? No. Am I certain that I want anyone but Bush to be president in 2005? Yes.
Read:
Teal Sunglasses: America -- love it or, um...`.
e.p.c. posted this at 12:12 GMT on 1-Oct-2003 .
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