Jobs!

Something that is cool about having a job in the United States is that it brings you that much closer to having something to eat in the evenings. As a point of personal pride, this is something that I have aspired to for most of my adult life. Having a job helped make it happen -- I have to admit it. However, something that is cool about having two jobs in the United States is that you are pretty much set financially, unless you have reproduced into more than one person. As George Bush once said, isn't it great to live in a country where you can have three jobs?

Something that sucks about having a job in the United States is that you have go to it. This is probably the number one pet peeve of people with jobs. On top of that, there are many responsibilities which are placed on you with the expectation that you will care about them. Why anyone believes you will care about them is a very funny thing to discover, particularly if you don't care about them so passionately that you forget what they are. I have seen this happen so many times it makes me proud to be an American -- normally I am not a very patriotic person -- because the reason is always that you don't have any choice. Not having any choice is a very good reason to care about something, and this logic forms the basis of our very economy.