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Hello Randy:
You're describing the Peter Principle.. That's where people are promoted til they reach their level of incompetence.
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I think there are many people these days that feel the need to take on as much work as possible to stay employed in general. They often work 10 or 12 hours a day!
Young urban professionals often work too many hours to sustain good health and judgement. Young medical interns work 60 to 80 hours a week for several years to qualify. Young lawyers, similar. For others, overwork is seasonal, such as for accountants at tax time. Or for some, it happens as deadlines approach. There were times when I was a sculptor when I didn't sleep in the last three days before an exhibition. Working in the studio to get every piece finished on time, and then the transport and mounting, my feet burned.
ALMOST ALL REALITY TV SHOW "stars"
Watch this TV show. It's called Honey Boo Boo. Sure it is off the air, but they made millions for being hillbillies with no moral code whatsoever. It spawned so many spin-offs of hillbilly retards, that the people who watch this swill are oftentimes even worse off than the STARS of these horrible reality travesties. This now passes for Television these days. Those STARS are the people who provide entertainment for those who vote for Trump. Incidentally, Honey Boo Boo's step father molested her older sister and the mother turned the other way to keep him in her dullard life.
Yes, it's both possible and fairly common.
Back during the middle of the Darth Cheney/Boy Emperor regime, Boy George trotted out a woman at a political event and said, "Look at her. She's working three jobs (probably to put food on her family....;-D...). It's the American dream!"
No, it's not.
If one person is working 3 jobs, then BY DEFINTION there are two jobs which are not available for other people to do. Gee, might that have anything to do with high unemployment rates? But, that's how the modern Smash Labor Up Production Neoliberal Economic Consensus works. Keep people scrambling to be "overemmployed" (by working multiple jobs to make ends meet) and they'll be too busy to ask for a raise (or become politicallly active and demand an economic system which benefits them more).
The second way people can be "overemployed" is that human beings have physiological and psychological limits. If we work more than about 50 hours per week, the quality and productivity of our efforts drops off significantly. Here's one of many easily-found links on the subject.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/12/working-hours
Sure, sometimes circumstances dictate that we work longer hours because of deadlines, unexpected setbacks, etc. Sometimes the short-term benefit is worth the cost. But over an extended period, "overemployment" can be a serious detriment. I recall reading of one case where a small software company, desperate to finish a project, found that its engineers were so tired from long work hours that they were negatively productive. They made so many mistakes that had to be later addressed and fixed that their "overemployment" hours were generating more work to do than they were getting work done.
That's a VERY good point.
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Thank you.
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1. I do not watch crap like that, but thank you for the mandate that I do it. I won't be complying with it.
2. You just had to work ol' Trump into it, didn't you? I'll bet you couldn't resist.
2a. Aren't Billary and Hillary from Arkansas? Hmmmmm.
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I once lived in a "hillbilly" trailer park. Thanks Sharonna for taking me back to the "good old days". I could tell you some real horror stories but have chosen to block out all that stuff.
@Rpf -- You have my sympathy. I hope things are better for you now.
One of my fellow psychology students at Univ. of Hawaii was a young woman who worked three jobs in addition to holding up top grades (and I think she was doing a double-major). I asked her when she slept and her reply was, "Well...I sleep. Sometimes."...;-D...
im unemployed and cant find work
