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To: rich4eagle who wrote (249396)	4/20/2002 12:33:58 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 769670

Tsk, tsk, richeagle...obviously, you've no idea ... ...as to the arduous, thankless work that is required in the care and feeding of an 18-year-old 'child.' An only child, as reported by the harried father ... -g- I see it as quite different from the spousal arrangements in which one or the other is raising children as the 'stay-at-home' caretaker generally brought about by the high costs of full and/or part-time daycare. But that's just me. -g- bia

To: rich4eagle who wrote (249396)	4/22/2002 1:44:51 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You know almost nothing about me, and have a cockeyed view of how to gauge hard work, too. No, I have not worked construction or dug ditches. I have, though, worked busy shifts as a dishwasher (among my duties was to bus tables, haul boxes, and clean bathrooms as needed); worked in a grocery/fishmarket, selling fish and vegetables, helping to steam crabs, hauling beer from a truck to a big fridge, and from the storage fridge to the front, and moving other stock; and I used to have to walk all around a college campus picking up mail, haul it to the mailroom to stamp it, take it to the post office, pick up the incoming mail, and deliver sort it for all of the mailboxes. On a hot day, you could work up a good sweat just on all that. But hard work does not require sweat, anyway. Spend hours reading Kant and Hegel; work on an important manuscript for weeks or months; tutor someone in math who has no head for the subject, such that every session is a struggle; there are many kinds of hard work........