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To: Poet who wrote (4913)	7/3/2001 3:08:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 6089

I've never thought of the adage that childrearing is the world's most difficult job as "right-wing claptrap". I think Cohen's dead wrong. Well, doesn't it depend on your definition of "difficult" in terms of jobs? What are the factors which make a job "difficult"? Is it physical ardor (construction, logging)? High cost to others of failure (doctors, criminal defense lawyers, long haul truck drivers)? High levels of physical skill and/or training (professional athletes)? Long hours of high stress work (emergency room doctors, some lawyers)? High risk of danger to self (Combat soldier, inner city cop, open hearth steelworkers)? High risk of financial ruin to self (day trading, commodities trading)? Continuous high levels of intense mental focus and concentration (chess grandmasters, who expend more energy during a match than a football player does during a football game)? High degree of responsibility with inadequate resources (first grade teacher)? Until we have some agreement on what constitutes difficulty in the job context, it will be just opinion. Which is good to start an argument, but not good for moving a discussion forward.

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