tangomonster
Full time employment: Posting here.
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- Mar 20, 2006
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Compared to most of the people on this board, I often feel like I had the worst job. I tested people with disabilities and gave them guidance about realistic educational and vocational possibilities. Needless to say, my recommendations weren't often well received. In a world where parents say "Johnny can be anything he wants to be" and any kid who can keep a tune or throw a basketball into a hoop thinks they have what it takes to be a megacelebrity singer or athlete, people didn't like me pointing out that it was going to be hard for Johnny to become a doctor when he wasn't able to even take or pass college prep biology in high school. Or that Suzy couldn't become a teacher with a third grade reading level. And in a sense, I had three layers of bosses/people who would critique me: my actual employers, state vocational rehabilitation counselors who referred clients to make, and the people I tested and their families. After 30 years, with a master's degree, I ended with a salary of about $45K.
So I thought I won the booby prize for worst job until I heard about this:
Consent Of The Governed: Outsourcing Parenting - Hire Someone To Delouse Your Child
(For those who can't pull up the link, it's about a woman who comes to people's homes and picks lice out of kids' hair so parents don't have to do it! Then again, considering she earns $55 an hour or about $1000 for two days of nit-picking, maybe my former job still does qualify as worse!)
So I thought I won the booby prize for worst job until I heard about this:
Consent Of The Governed: Outsourcing Parenting - Hire Someone To Delouse Your Child
(For those who can't pull up the link, it's about a woman who comes to people's homes and picks lice out of kids' hair so parents don't have to do it! Then again, considering she earns $55 an hour or about $1000 for two days of nit-picking, maybe my former job still does qualify as worse!)