Jobs
Every evening I watch people getting on the train at Tower City and I wonder, where do they work? How stable are their jobs? Do they like their jobs, or do they just stay because they've got kids or a mortgage or just because they wouldn't be able to find a new job?
Are they working up to their full potential, or are they sighing wistfully over the tops of their cubicles around 2 in the afternoon, wishing they'd become a rock star or a surgeon or a robot-cowboy-astronaut?
I wonder if they're thinking the same things about me. I wonder what they'd say if they knew how much education I had. If they knew that despite my long and varied resume, what I craved most now was stability. That I was working a temporary grant-funded job with no benefits. Would they say, "why did you leave New York, dumbass?" or would they say, "I like Cleveland, too."
Are they working up to their full potential, or are they sighing wistfully over the tops of their cubicles around 2 in the afternoon, wishing they'd become a rock star or a surgeon or a robot-cowboy-astronaut?
I wonder if they're thinking the same things about me. I wonder what they'd say if they knew how much education I had. If they knew that despite my long and varied resume, what I craved most now was stability. That I was working a temporary grant-funded job with no benefits. Would they say, "why did you leave New York, dumbass?" or would they say, "I like Cleveland, too."
posted by Christine Borne at 9:17 AM
5 Comments:
One thing I'm desperately trying to teach myself is that it doesn't matter what other people think. I worry all the time that leaving DC to come back to Cleveland would set off a laugh riot amongst my friends, but you know what? Who cares? Honest people would admire your commitment to the city you love, and if you know you're doing the right thing that's all that matter. Kudos.
I don't really care what people think either, I just wonder what they *are* thinking. Does that make sense?
Oh I can understand that. I just know that I, personally, often have trouble separating the two notions :-)
Lovely, lovely, lovely. Christine, you have the eyes and deeply ruminative spirit of a master writer. Keep bringing the heat.
Why do you need a job with benefits? Doesn't your husband have one?
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