The Joys Of Fame And No Fortune
f I were to pattern myself just forgot to tell me!) I'm so
after a famous character in flattered when a guy like
a book, I'd pick a heroine columnist Paul Krugman writes, "a
that was gorgeous, brilliant and college degree has hardly been a
amazingly successful. ticket to big income gains…the
real earnings of college
I wouldn't pick Barbara graduates fell more than 5%
Ehrenreich as she presented between 2000 and 2004."
herself in "Bait and Switch, the
Futile Pursuit of the American Paul, I'm glad you know me and I
Dream." However, that character hate to criticize, but you got it
seems to have picked me. Try as I wrong. For this college graduate,
might, I can not escape the fact her income fell 100%, not a
that Ehrenreich's adventures in measly 5%.
that best-selling book are much
like my own. But the gist of Krugman's
writings, that the obscenely rich
The biggest difference is that I are getting more obscenely rich
didn’t get to write about my and everybody else is falling, is
failure in the job market and completely accurate. This
make a bunch of money on book economic unbalancing act is
sales. I just got to endure my happening for lots of reasons,
failure and realize that my life one of which is white-collar
was a statistic. unemployment and
under-employment.
That's always fun.
My point is that my woes are not
I've also read about myself in just mine. Many people are like
the pages of the New York Times. me. I see them every time I make
(See, I must be famous and they a trip to any retail outlet,
folks who used to work at borrowed hers.)
professional jobs selling lumber,
light fixtures or lettuce. Older Self-employment is risky, but
workers who may not have the pep it's the only way a person like
of a 21-year-old; they have what myself will escape being a wage
the workplace DOES NOT reward, slave. The Internet is still open
wisdom and experience. to the little guy so even though
I'm a little late, I'm merging
I do not pretend to understand onto the information super
the irony of that; I just know it highway.
to be true.
Which brings us to the net
To avoid falling into the same neutrality issue. How much longer
trap as my former white-collar will the Internet be open to the
buddies, I have elected to start little guy? If the big guys get
an Internet business instead of their way, not much longer.
taking whatever menial, low wage
job I can find. Bastards.
In part, I made that choice What option would be open to me
because I couldn't find a menial, then? Welfare handouts? The big
low wage job. I interviewed for guys would balk and call me lazy
five. None wanted me. It must and undeserving. "Find a job,
have been the orange skirt I was damn it," they'd bark.
wearing that made me look like
the great pumpkin. "I'm trying," is all I would be
able to holler back from my
Barbara Ehrenreich's job coach merry-go-round as it whirls past
gave me that tip. (I couldn't them, lazily enjoying their
afford my own job coach so I weenies and ice cream cones.
I'm trying.
About the Author:
Lorraine Grula has worked the majority of her 25-year career in television journalism. She'd rather shovel elephant poo than go back to that zoo. Today, Lorraine makes her living on the internet. Seek her advice at http://www.NoHassleWebBiz.com
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