Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

So I should move to the Sun Belt and be a nurse. Yinz better all come to my funeral after I shoot myself in the head.

Well, if you knew that'd fix your jobless problems and you decided against it, whose decision was that?

You're damned lucky if you get up every day and LIKE what you're doing. Don't tell other people that they need to do something they're awful at or that they detest just because you can't fathom what that's like.

I worked retail for 9 years. I'm pretty familiar with working at a job I detest. Did it suck? Yes. Did it add about a year to my undergrad? Yep. Did it pay the bills? Sure did. Would I do it again? No doubt. Beats the heck outta living on credit. Liking what you are doing is a luxury not everyone gets to have. Paying the bills comes before self-actualization. For most folks, if that's what they expect out of the job market, they'll be waiting a very, very long time.

And in the final analysis, what the heck difference does it make what I did, what my situation is or whether I'm a sympathetic soul? None of those weigh in on whether someone could possibly be at least partially responsible for their own plight.