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Carol H Tucker
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yup it is Monday
Today is the 2nd day of the 21st week, the 22nd day of the 5th month, the 142nd day of 2017, and:
- Accountants’ or Accounting Day
- Canadian Immigrants Day
- Harvey Milk Day -- in memory of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist assassinated in 1978
- International Day for Biological Diversity
- National Buy a Musical Instrument Day
- National Maritime Day
- National Vanilla Pudding Day
- Sherlock Holmes Day ((Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on this day in 1859))
- US Colored Troops Day
- Victoria Day
- World Goth Day
ON THIS DAY: In 192 Dong Zhuo was assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. In 760 the fourteenth perihelion passage of Halley's Comet was recorded. In 1570 the first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, was published with 70 maps. In 1762 Trevi Fountain in Rome was officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII. In 1819 the SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. In 1826 the HMS Beagle departed on its first voyage. In 1849 Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only US President to ever hold a patent. In 1868 what came to be known as "The Great Train Robbery" took place near Marshfield, Indiana; seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds [about $1,702,260 in today's money]. In 1900 the Associated Press was formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative. In 1906 the Wright brothers were granted US patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". In 1915 Lassen Peak erupted, the only volcano other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century. In 1969 Apollo 10's lunar module flew within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. In 1992 Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job. In 2012 Tokyo Skytree opened to the public; it is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). In 2015 the Republic of Ireland became the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
Today, eight years ago, I was offered and accepted the position I currently hold. For me it ended a nightmare ten days of unemployment. For the recruiter I was working with, it was a disappointment for it was a job I had found the old-fashioned way via a print ad. He very much wanted me to wait and see if an offer letter was sent from another position that I had been told I was going to get – but given the 10% unemployment figures hereabouts at the beginning of the recession, I was nervous about turning down a job in hand for one that might not materialize. For the company it was an abrupt change of course – before interviewing me they were preparing an offer letter to someone else.
I have not regretted my decision to step down in position and pay – I got about four hours a day of my life back, I can dress casually, the commute is not onerous and I like both my boss and co-workers – and have indeed refused subsequent job offers through the years. However, economically I never made that salary cut back – even today I am making less [when adjusted for inflation] than I did in my previous position while my expenses have continued to increase. While this has negatively impacted both my ability to stay out of debt and my hopes to retire, I am fully cognizant that I am one of the fortunate ones. For ten days I teetered precariously on the edge of total ruination, a situation that I never expected to find myself in and an experience that I am not likely to ever forget.
THIS is the economic reality of those who are not part of the 1% -- we are all one job loss, one illness, one accident away from our lives falling complete apart. As I listen to the rhetoric blaming baby boomers for the ills of society and threatening the end of so-called “entitlements”, I wish I felt that anyone in Congress understood how that reality feels after having worked for over a half of a century….
And as much as I like where I work now, I have to admit that every single Monday I wish for Hawaiian time!
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