Word: jobses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So what does it all mean? It means fresh paint on houses and new cars in driveways across Elkhart County. It means $15 an hour plus benefits, on average, for assembly-line work that ranges from welding chassis to hanging kitchen curtains. It means six and seven members of the...
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!
So what, you may be thinking, does this mean to us, as Harvard students? Not much, right? After all, we're better educated than most. We could pass that test. That is, if we even wanted to become teachers. But there are better things to do--consulting, I-banking, lawyering...
True, they are no longer students. True, they are supporting themselves. They wake up early in the morning to go to their jobs, and, in the evenings, they either go out with friends or go home and watch TV. Some of them even wear suits to work. And true, all...
But at a deeper level, none of them seem to think of what they're doing as something that they might be doing for good--which, of course, is refreshing for those of us who aren't yet real people and are afraid of becoming them. They talk about getting...