Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
1. Social worker
2. Special events coordinator
3. Probation/parole officer
4. News reporter
5. Music ministry director
6. Membership manager
7. Fundraiser
8. Commercial photographer
9. Assisted living director
10. Minister
11. Marriage/family therapist
12. Curator
13. Substance abuse counselor
14. Film/TV Producer
15. High school teacher
Yeah, I know. It’s a real bitch getting born into something that isn’t royalty, having to spend your life doing things others would find useful and valuable just to chase those three hots & a cot.
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Yea, no…
1.) Marine
- tim | 10/29/2009 @ 06:20I was a su chef for thirteen years. Stressful and the pay sucked. It did get me through graduate school, so I won’t complain too much.
- Physics Geek | 10/29/2009 @ 06:37Social worker
Think how much more badly it would be going for us if this paid well
Special events coordinator
That’s a job for someone who can’t get a job
Probation/parole officer
They can always become bounty hunters
News reporter
They pay these people?
Fundraiser
Depends what you consider payment
Commercial photographer
Job of last resort for a shuterbug
Minister
High stress? I doubt that, and they are getting paid better than the boss
Curator
Stress is only occurs when you are not very good at something that is difficult, satisfaction when you are
High school teacher
- xlibrl | 10/29/2009 @ 10:04Not as stressed and underpaid as the student, and the student is not a volunteer
I’m with tim, though mine is called Soldier. Lower enlisted forward observer for an infantry platoon in the 82nd Airborne? Yup, makes the list.
- Andy | 10/29/2009 @ 11:56Well, Hell. I’ll throw in with Small-Tee and Andy, seeing as how I was an enlisted puke Wing-Nut. Before the term got co-opted.
- bpenni | 10/29/2009 @ 12:30I only count four on that list as stressful and low paying. Marriage counselors probably laugh their assess off most nights.
Tim, Andy and Buck’s inclusion of military personal is definitely stressful and possibly deadly with decidedly low pay, but there aren’t any other jobs out there that offer full retirement benefits and a host of other treats after short twenty years on the payroll. A sweet deal if you can make the time.
- Daphne | 10/29/2009 @ 18:49Daphne makes a hell of a point. Some of us were too simple to stick it out. I’d be better than halfway to a lifetime of commissary privileges and free health/dental by now.
- Andy | 10/29/2009 @ 19:21Nice snark, Andy. Maybe you were too simple. A host of intelligent men and women managed to make the mark, gain remarkable skill sets and go on to fine private sector employment at the ripe age of forty or less while collecting that retirement check with a full load of bennies. That package is nonexistent in the private sector, unless you’re union.
But I’ll be sure to ask my neighbor about those commissary privileges, he’s been running a division at IBM for the past six years and I don’t think he minds spending that dinky CO pension on his wife’s show horse habit or the new barn.
Or I could call my uncle, he runs IT for Nasa in Houston, I believe he’s mentioned more than once or twice how nice that air force retirement check helps fill out his Longhorn herd and pays for the private schooling of his last two. But maybe it’s the free health/dental that puts him over the hump.
My husband’s best friend, a full bird colonel at the ripe age of 45, who retired last year and just signed on with Schlumberger clocking $150k has been crowing about how pretty he’s sitting with his retirement package, maybe I should double check how he feels about that meager retirement check that’s now covering his rather large mortgage payment?
Of the even dozen I personally know who pulled a full twenty, half of those people facing combat, all of them consider their benefits gravy rather than sustenance and fully appreciate the nice cushion it affords. I’m not surprised that you would dismiss it as insignificant, people who pulled full duty see it differently.
My brother would agree with you though, he was smart enough to bail at year twelve and still kicks himself in the ass for missing out on those crappy benefits.
- Daphne | 10/29/2009 @ 20:30Twenty years? You consider that short? Who are you, Jack Lalanne?
Seriously though, don’t you need to have an appreciable rank to get even a decent package?
- KG | 10/29/2009 @ 21:58You misunderstood me, Daphne. There was no snark. Though looking back, I can see how it reads that way.
- Andy | 10/29/2009 @ 22:12Daphne,
While your point about pension and such is valid, the following on the list would most likely be state employees, union to boot and if it’s here in my state of NY, the retirement benefits are outstanding.
1. Social worker
- tim | 10/30/2009 @ 06:493. Probation/parole officer
15. High school teacher
Daphne, et al. The pension pays the rent, the benefits are pretty nice as well… chief of which is cut-rate single malt at the Class VI store. 🙂 I haven’t had to use the health bennies yet (beyond annual check-ups), Thank God.
I find it interesting that my “early” Social Security check (I went at 62) is just slightly higher than my USAF retirement check… and I only did 16 years in the civilian sector, as opposed to 22 years with Uncle’s Air Force. But the civilian career paid me four times what I made in my last year in the AF. Still and even: if I were to do it all over again I wouldn’t change a thing. That retirement check and the bennies are just icing on what was a VERY tasty and nutritious cake.
- bpenni | 10/30/2009 @ 22:11