---Jane McKee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > How about getting a second job? While there is much merit, and often some internal value, to getting a second job--and I say this as one who has worked two jobs (one full-time, one part-time, intermittently) for the last year--the reasons I would have against this are the same ones that have haunted me since posting yesterday about the low-end spectrum of the job post in question. A salary in the low $20s in the LA area could be lived on by a single person, though it nowhere matches the value of the education it took to get hired. Two jobs can be worked by a single person. But what of someone with a family? A single mother raising children who will need child care and all the other necessities could barely make it in that capacity, and to assume a job is the end all in life is unrealistic. I worked two jobs and went to school before having kids. I worked two jobs after finishing school once the kids were raised. But raising children requires time, and they should not be sacrificed for a low salary. It just doesn't seem equitable. If we put value in a college education and preach that one will not succeed without one, if we push people to get the best grades possible in order to be able to compete, why should that job not pay something of fair-market value based on the economy of scale for that area? Oh, I realize there are two scales of thought. The ones that say you sacrifice everything including family to have a career, and those who say a career is there to help you and your family. I'm of the latter. Gayle Montgomery [log in to unmask] Southern California == Indigo Nights [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com