The Weekly Poll
Results
'The Devil is in the Details' Edition...
We all have had to make difficult decisions, from time to time, that involve compromises that can be distasteful. Such as...
A.) Would you take your dream job that has great pay and benefits, but you would have to relocate to an area that you'd loathe (such as Oklahoma)?
or...
B.) Would you live in an area that you've always wanted to but at a minimum wage, hand to mouth, subsistence level existence with no chance of improvement?
It's either A or B... No in between... Choose! Choose now! Ha Ha!
Thanks fer yer patience, Poll-Fans! Here it is at last...
Adam in NoHo right away wrote...
I've done both-
For years I went wherever the work took me. The low point was working in Miami (unless you live on Miami Beach, forget it), and I never properly appreciated Rochester, NY until I was leaving.
Then I fell in love and moved to San Francisco to be with the man I eventually married. We met while I was visiting SF. 6 mo later I moved out there without any prospects for making money or even knowing if out
relationship would survive actually being together 24/7. (It all worked out) Then we had to leave SF. Our life in LA is similar to what we had in SF (minus the ambiance).
My life is pretty darn close to what I imagined so many years ago when I first thought about what my future might hold.
(Thanks, Adam! I wish you yer Hubby the best! Maybe Clotho will spin her web just so and take you back to SanFran... )
DRD answered...
Hello Bob, (Hello Don)
Another good one as it requires a person to give thought to his answer. I think it would be very hard to stay upbeat with the situation of your location if you were pinched severely money wise. Say you were a motel employee in Aspen, Co., and were receiving minimum wages for your efforts. Just how long would that be a viable lifestyle? Or, say you were a lover of the great Pacific North-Western United States as we are and you decided to support yourself as a day laborer? From personal experiences that would be a rough one!
So, I fall under 'A'. (Me, too...)
Most advisers recommend a person to find something they enjoy doing and then making a living doing that. We are as a rule of thumb under much more stress and strain from our employment than we are from where we live! With the job of our dreams we would be able to afford some of the finer, more enjoyable past-times to help compensate for our lack of positive feelings for the location. Money won't buy happiness; but it sure makes living more enjoyable!
Thanks Bob, (Yer welcome... And Thank You!)
SallyP(al) responded most civilly with...
In reply to this week's Poll, I could really take either. But, since you insist we choose, I say: A. I'd take s dream job that has great pay and benefits, even is I have to relocate to an area that most would loathe (such as Oklahoma). For starters, Bart lives in OK, so I could hang with he and Mrs Bart! Hahaha. (the OK thing was a friendly gibe directed at Bart. I was hopin' he'd bite, but he didn't rise to the bait, more's the pity)
That being said, I have never lived or traveled anywhere in the world that I did not fine some good stuff, and have made dear friends - most found in the worst of places. And, maybe I would be able to change the area in which I lived for the better, you know?? One last point, if I were making that great salary, I could take trips anywhere I wanted - and never say never when it comes to relocating for a job - that's how I would up living in a rather poor area of northern Italy for almost two years! Hope this meets yer fancy,
(Meets it just fine, Pally... Thanks)
DanD rightfully corrected me with...
Oh Bob; (Uh-oh... I'm in fer it now!)
You've functionally left me out of the loop ... along with millions others of "us." (Sorry!)
As it seems, and I could be wrong, I've been before [it's that time that I thought I was wrong, but wasn't], but your wording appears to be directed only to those carbon life forms who work for somebody (or something) else. I mean, what of all us non-homeless types who are -- uh, relatively -- self-employed? Or even, in these modern times of the jobless economic recovery, the homeless who became homeless because their outsourced (from their home that is) wage-slave job got outsourced from the country?
Per example, while I almost qualify for "B.)", and live a pretty-much-well hand-to-mouth subsistence level with no real prospect of improvement, the money I make is determined by no one but me (in other words, if I were minimum wage, I'd probably consider myself "Middle-class").
As it is, I have chosen my life's direction and made my bed (metaphorically of course, as my actual bed hasn't been "made" very recently at all), and I'm pretty-well where I'm at from my own volition. All lifestyles have their distasteful aspects, and even for the "moneyed" class, the monkey they have on their backs can deplete them even faster of their own humanity.
I may not be "happy" all the time, but life remains interesting.
(Well, there's somethin' to be said fer 'interesting', that's fer sure... Sorry 'bout leavin' out all you entrepreneur
types. Thanks fer settin' me straight...)
Charlie Y. wraps it up with...
Since "B" offers no chance at improvement, I guess I have to go with "A," even though it obviously sucks.
(Well, then, it might at that, but as Sally pointed out that with a good income comes the opportunity to travel frequently to more appealing locales for rejuvenation)
That's it! Thanks to all.... Yer the Best!
BadToTheBoneBob
New Question
The 'Two or Three and out' Edition
Washington (CNN) -- A handful of Republican senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how long a person may serve in Congress.
Currently, there are no term limits for federal lawmakers, but Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, and several of his colleagues are advocating that service in the Senate be limited to 12 years, while lawmakers would only be allowed to serve six years in the House
GOP senators push for term limits - CNN.com
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