[quote=zzz]BG, reality check, but most people don’t have those perks, free, subsidized or otherwise. And yes, I had to dress up in suits every day for years and years and still do for biz meetings. And yes I know people who were sent home because their top was too low. I and many other colleagues had to put up with sexist remarks, sexual harrassment, 15 hour days, long hours at client meetings or in the office. No I didn’t work from home, meetings, pretending to like higher ups, living on planes and extensive travel, had to lift heavy boxes to unpack or pack up booths at trade shows. No its not a descriptor of youth, its called work BG…and you know what, I had it better than most because I got paid well to put up with this. But a lot of people actually don’t get paid well to work in much less desirable environments. And no, most people I know don’t wear flip flops to work, nor do they work from home. Lots of people have to drive or commute 30 mins or 2 hours each way. I have friends who work in underserved neighborhoods and get peed and shit on by kids they counsel, hit or bitten by kids, and have to leave their work escorted by security guards because people get shot in the neighborhood all the time.[/quote]
Yes, zzz, we can both agree that …. “…a lot of people actually don’t get paid well to work in much less desirable environments.”
I see from your post that you have been a “road warrior” at least part of your “career.”
I have another couple of questions of you, zzz. Do you have children? And if so, if they are (or when they were) pre-school age, is or was there someone at your home to “mind the store?” Or were your children in FT daycare from infancy?
I am well aware of what CPS and County social workers do. Yes, everything you say about those jobs are true and there is much more.
HOWEVER . . . again, these people MAJOR in social work and nursing in college all the while KNOWING exactly what the job entails.
btw, you must know that County CPS workers and social workers will receive defined benefit pensions when they retire.
