DharmaSurfing:  I feel completely compromised…

I feel heartsick.  I just applied for a job for which I am more than adequately qualified, but the circumstances will be horrible on my family.

I don’t HAVE to do this, but I’m so frustrated with not finding anything close to home during the last fourteen months that I feel compelled to sign on SOMETHING and ANYTHING that I can put on my resume.

The job is located 50 miles from my home.  The hours are Monday through Saturday (with Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday off), full-time 2pm-10pm or part-time 5pm-10pm.  The job pays crap, on top of it all; $20K for full-time.  Daycare will eat $8 to $10K of that on an after-tax basis; I won’t have a choice but to have day care because my husband is traveling so much (trying to save his flagging business).  I’m not even certain after consolidating our incomes that we won’t actually have to pay out more income tax than I’d net at this job.

I will see my kids only in the morning to drop them at school, one school night a week, and Sunday.

Oh yeah, I’ll see them on Saturday morning.

I may not see my husband except on Sundays.

Good God, what do people do who have no choice but this?  What do single parents do? 

If it weren’t for the benefit package and the potential for career development with the employer I would have to scrap this idea.  If it weren’t for the fact that it’s been an awfully long dry spell, I’d have blown this off.

What have you been doing over the last year?  They ask.

Sweating bullets.

And you?

4:00:49 PM    comment []

RantsCounterRants:  By the book…

From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: fraud

Pronunciation: 'frod

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English fraude, from Middle French, from Latin fraud-, fraus

Date: 14th century

1 a : DECEIT, TRICKERY; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b : an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : TRICK

Main Entry: fail·ure

Pronunciation: 'fA(&)l-y&r

Function: noun

Etymology: alteration of earlier failer, from Anglo-French, from Old French faillir to fail

Date: 1643

1 a : omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : a failing to perform a duty or expected action b : a state of inability to perform a normal function <kidney failure>; compare HEART FAILURE c : a fracturing or giving way under stress <structural failure>

2 a : lack of success b : a failing in business : BANKRUPTCY

3 a : a falling short : DEFICIENCY <a crop failure> b : DETERIORATION, DECAY

4 : one that has failed

Rob, love ya’ man, but I respectfully disagree.  Bush is not just a failure, he’s a fraud.  Not only does a duly elected representative of the American people have the right to exercise free speech; he has an obligation, a fiduciary responsibility to be direct when he sees fraud.

In the strictest sense of the word, it is Bush’s actions that are fraudulent.  But it is a bit of a deceit to believe this man is a real president.

Was Nixon merely a failure?  Or did he perpetrate a fraud or two?  I have to wonder what would have happened if the American public and its duly elected representatives only labeled Nixon a failure and nothing more.

2:29:41 PM    comment []

Change in the wind

1:03:03 PM    comment []

RantsCounterRants:  WSJ -- not on the coffee table here

The Antic Muse points out the use of a racial epithet in the WSJ.  How did I miss it?  I stopped reading that neo-con rag some time ago, when it appeared to be blindly following the Bush Administration on tax cutting and the rest of their Bushista agenda.

The use of a racial epithet and its approval by WSJ staff is pretty offensive in any context, even if there was some meager attempt at humor by the author.

Simply not acceptable.  Seals WSJ’s fate as reading material in my house.  What a demotion; to think I used to read it way back in the fat-and-sassy 1990’s, front to back.

Cat box filler, really.

10:41:04 AM    comment []