I realized that I find unemployment an attractive feature in other people. how weird.
Many volunteer organizations require you to pay in order to volunteer with them... that to me implies that you're doing them a negative service?? Like you dig this hole so they can put a pipe thru and have drinking water but what they're really doing is taking half your money to cover up the hole and using the rest to buy bottled water. I'm sure it's not how it works...still feels weird. isn't my time valuable enough?
and burning up = burning down!
ReplyDeletereally? you think unemployment is attractive? That's pretty different from what I would've expected for you. I almost feel I could come up with counterexamples...
It might be more indicative of how weird our generation is... but i feel like people are cooler or get cooler when they're unemployed. When i hear here that someone just became unemployed, i think, oh good they're finally doing something with their life. weird isn't it? And in some cases, I'm just waiting for the friend to quit their job and become cooler through traveling for a year.
ReplyDeleteIt seems it's not so much that you're impressed by unemployment, as that you think most of the cool things that people can do require unemployment (e.g. traveling for a year), i.e. cool implies unemployed, but not the other way around.
ReplyDeleteSo for me personally, if I hear that someone just became unemployed, I wouldn't automatically think "oh good they're finally doing something with their life." I might think this could be an interesting opportunity for them to do things they couldn't otherwise, but I wouldn't assume that they're seeing it the same way. And I think there are plenty of people who are unemployed, some by choice, who don't choose to do anything especially "cool" with their unemployment.
Oh yeah, and paying for volunteering seems weird. I guess it depends how much you're paying... if you're paying to cover your costs and the amount of good you're doing exceeds how much you could do by, say, donating the money, then I guess could make sense. But I guess what confuses me is there seem to be more expensive programs where you're paying for the opportunity to volunteer in the hopes that you'll be getting something out of it, and that just seems weird.
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