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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rick Julian who wrote (84871)8/4/2000 9:48:41 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
When I was in college I worked my way through as a married woman. My husband worked to at a student job part time. We were both taking at least 15 units each and working part time. Rent was expensive, the job market wasn't tight like it is now- especially in a college town overflowing with workers- and my husband and I used to run out of food and money by the end of the month. We'd be stuck eating Kraft macaroni and cheese for a week.

I put up with a lot of sexual harassment at the part time waitress jobs I held. My managers were always men, and they were awful. I couldn't afford to quit and blow a whole semester if I lost my apartment. It would have seriously messed up my life, and what is WORSE, it would have messed up my husband's life, because he was depending on me to do my part.

Fear is sometimes rational. If you are going to lose your house, your healthcare, that is serious stuff- especially if people are in your care or are trusting you to help share a burden. I was married so young I don't remember a time when people didn't depend on me as part of a unit. But I imagine it is much easier to lose or quit your job when your action isn't affecting someone else. It is always worse (for me) to bring catastrophe on someone that I love, than to bring it on myself.
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