WOHM's who say they have to work
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WOHM's who say they have to work
| Sun, 10-29-2006 - 4:17pm |
For those of you that WOH and say you have to do it to make ends meet. Do you really do it to make ends meet or do you do it cause you want to keep up a certain lifestyle? Do you know how to live with out debt or without having to keep up with the joneses?
ETA Please excuse all my siggys. Obviously I dont know how to turn them off. I thought I did.


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Well I'm not a parent who WOH; however, I do know parents who work to make ends meet.
that was kind of my point. We are all guilty of spending what could probably be considered too much time here. Trying to use that to somehow discredit someone or avoid answerng a question is not a good or ethical debate tactic, imo. Keeping in mind that the poster I was originally speaking to has discussed many times how she debates with *integrity*. I say its hypocritical and I still dont see what it has to do with the debate, even as a tangent.
Dj
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For someone who won't even lay claim to a profession on the grounds that it's too personal to reveal, you have a great deal of nerve asking any of this of anyone else.
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Or lady of the evening.
Because shredding documents is funny.
Just ask Ollie North.
Edited 11/4/2006 1:48 am ET by cdmamnyell
Here's a thought....
Maybe part of what I love my job is that there is enough downtime (most of which would otherwise be spent twiddling my thumbs waiting on a response on something from my boss - who, btw, will be the first to admit that HE wastes a considerable amount of what might be considered MY time) that I'm able to do this kind of thing, and part of the reason my job (or jobs, really, at this particular moment in time) loves me back is that I'm able to carry out my duties well all the while.
Another thought, which just occurred to me to mention, is that many of us don't punch a time clock. I'm one of those people. Where I work, we all pretty much come and go as we please; there are a few guidelines but for the most part, we are not held to a specific daily schedule and we each determine our own hours. The only time I really even have to account for is that which is billed to clients - and due to the nature of the job(s) I have, that doesn't amount to much anyway. If I were to spend X number of minutes on the internet and something ended up not getting done because of it, that would mean that I'd just have to find a way to get it done...when or even where wouldn't really matter. It would be my problem, not my employer's.
I'm sure I'm not the only poster with this type of situation.
Edited 11/4/2006 6:19 am ET by lauren1063
I am as close to a pacifist as you can get without being a Quaker. My father desperately wanted me to join the Air Force (he was and was a weapons officers stationed in Thiland during Nam - 67 -69, then taught about nuclear weapons at Lowery in CO until 72). I told him that while I found protecting the country something I was interested in I was not willing to kill, assist in killing, etc. He then went about showing me all the jobs I could do that did not directly deal with killing (such as working in Finance, JAG, etc.). I agreed and looked into it (because I really do believe in serving and protecting in a non-violent manner). However, I could not choose a job with the guarantee of not becoming directly involved in violence because I could not claim conscientious objector status since my religion believes in "just war". It would have been a long protracted application process re: conscientious objector with no guarantees.
In the end, after much thought I decided not to go the military route - much to my own disappointment. However, I could not in good conscience sign up for something and then throw the pacifist thing in later when I was ordered to do something that conflicted with my beliefs.
It actually was a pretty hard, soul searching decision.
Well egd3, I'll take your bait right here. I have never onced posted from work. Never. Therefore, I am obviously either busier at my job than you are at yours, or you get more breaks at your job than I do at mine or I am more committed to my job than you are to yours.
So it isn't clear that WOHM use more of the break bell because if you just compare you and me, you are using more of that break bell.
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