
Jan 24, 2018, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by bpforever1
ok,ok,ok. Yes, she needs a job, I understand. My suggestion is to not judge oneself by one's job. Yes, she needs a job. Yes, may be any job will do. However, I am hoping she can find something she likes. If she wanted to just work, I'm sure she can find a job. However, she is being choosy, and I don't blame her for being choosy. I do need to work too but have lowered my standards of living to have more freedom in choosing which jobs I want to do. Yes, having a job is important but it should not be the end all and be all of one's existence. She may one day have the job she wants. I am wishing this for her! But, to say that jobs make one's existence and determine how you feel is not helpful either. Yes, she needs to eat and needs to work. May be she may take a job she does not want to do so. I would not judge her as being any less if she had the job she wanted. She should not judge herself by the job she has and others should not either. So, my point is not that she should not have a job or have a job but rather about judging oneself by the job she has. So, may be you are right in encouraging Golden Eve to take any job, but this is her life and her business. She has the right to choose her job that comes her way and we should not tell her that she will be better off emotionally or mentally because she has a job, but tell her that it may help pay the bills and put food on the table. You are misconstruing my message and my point. I fully encourage her to do what she wants but to tell her she will be happier with any job is not helpful either.
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No one has told her to just take any job right now. Golden_Eve herself has said that at this point she will take any job she is offered. I do not think you understand the situation.
Eve is being forced to move out. She has only part-time work, and that has been cut back on hours. She desperately needs a new job, either an additional part-time job or a full-time job to support herself, as no one else will. On top of that, she is frustrated because she has been searching for full-time work for 2 years, and not been successful finding a new job yet.
She is in the hot seat because she needs a job to support herself. Right now any job will do because it's just about making ends meet. She can continue looking for the "dream" job once she is in a safe place financially and things have been stabilized.
Sometimes people don't have the choice of waiting for a job they like or want, they have to take the job that's offered, or they'll end up homeless and starving.
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