http://theratracejournal.com/decompressing One person caught up in the rat-race of life Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://theratracejournal.com/decompressing/comment-page-1#comment-44 AP Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:12:57 +0000 http://theratracejournal.com/index.php/2006/09/20/decompressing/#comment-44 When people ask me what I do for a living, and I say,"Nothing", their eyes usually widen, and they ask me if they heard me correctly. When I confirm my response, they almost always say,"Well, (insert name of company) is hiring, why don't you apply there?". That's almost as irritating as people asking me why we only have one car, or why we don't own the latest gadget, etc., and then treating us like we're a couple of social pariahs. Suddenly, we're not invited to their get-togethers, the phone calls stop coming, and they act evasive if we chance to see them in public. We've actually lost potential friends in exactly that manner, which astounds me. When people ask me what I do for a living, and I say,”Nothing”, their eyes usually widen, and they ask me if they heard me correctly. When I confirm my response, they almost always say,”Well, (insert name of company) is hiring, why don’t you apply there?”. That’s almost as irritating as people asking me why we only have one car, or why we don’t own the latest gadget, etc., and then treating us like we’re a couple of social pariahs. Suddenly, we’re not invited to their get-togethers, the phone calls stop coming, and they act evasive if we chance to see them in public. We’ve actually lost potential friends in exactly that manner, which astounds me.

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