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You get up every morning, remembering to set the alarm for tomorrow. If you have a family, then everyone has to get out the door and on time too, complete with homework, projects, lunches, appropriate weather gear. And then there is the commute – it takes time to get from home to work!
While you are at work, you are in a pecking order and have to remind yourself occasionally that everyone has a boss even if you can’t see who is holding someone accountable. According to HR, you are paid the market value for your position, which has nothing to do with what you know and everything to do with how the organization you are toiling for perceives the value that your knowledge, skills and abilities bring to the bottom line. Sometimes that means you get minimum wage, sometimes more than that. You can only marvel at stories that tell you a CEO in an entertainment business is worth $44 million a year, which means he makes $21,153.85 an hour and wonder what magical acumen, what vital KSA he possesses, that makes him worth so much an hour than a minimum wage worker is worth in a year. Whatever it is, you rather wistfully wish you had some of it as you struggle with productivity and goals and cost cutting regimes on a daily basis. Your manager tells you that you are a vital cog in the wheel, certainly there are severe penalties for not showing up or for being late! And if you are unlucky enough to be permanent part-time? You probably have to deal with no benefits and no leave so that missing a day at work means no pay, so you go to work sick and listen to your co-workers gripe about spreading of germs.
When you get home, after dealing with the evening rush hour, there are chores that await – cleaning, cooking, kid rearing tasks, laundry, bill paying. Hard to remember sometimes that these are the best years of your life, that you should be treasuring the time with your little ones.
You live for the weekends, for two glorious days when you are home. In those two days you pack all the home projects, the chores you cannot get to during the week, family outings, time with each other. But alas, Sunday night comes all too quickly and the alarm has to be set for Monday morning where it all starts all over again. And you worry what will happen when you become too old or too sick to work anymore, or if you are laid off, but you try not to dwell on that.
Now, can you think of a single Presidential candidate or member of Congress who has the slightest comprehension of this world?
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