Reply #65: rosemary you just don't know the real world

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i knew people in the greater new orleans area who never held a job until after katrina, so we're talking about basically over 20 years from the reagon "economic miracle" which destroyed louisiana to the storm which wiped out so many homes and businesses that finally everyone who wanted to work could find something to do in the rebuilding

i had a friend who never got his first real job until he was over age 45

that's just the way it is in this economic environment in some areas

you don't chose your class or where you were born or your family background

i'm glad you were able to have the choice of taking "any job," but plenty of bosses won't give just "any job" to just any person, and esp. not an educated articulate person because they figure it means trouble -- over qualified is a word that employers weren't embarrassed to use right to your face around here

you can't take "any job" if you're not offered "any job"

ignorance is bliss, you should get on your knees every day and thank god you have the luxury to be so ignorant as to fantasize that everyone out there will be offered some job