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January 31st, 2010
"Even Americans who are lucky enough to have work in this economy are becoming more unhappy with their jobs, according to a new survey that found only 45% of Americans are satisfied with their work."
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1951651,00.html
Look up the word "work" in the dictionary meat. It doesn’t mention play or joy.
Some people find joy in their work but they "worked " to get it.
I guess 55% of the workforce didn’t work hard enough. The job you have is commiserate with the time one spends to improve their skills. It’s a little by-product of living in a free country.
Cry-babies like you will never be happy about anything
January 31st, 2010
I would say the vast majority, especially in these hard times. People tend to hold onto jobs they are unhappy in for this very reason………….until something else opens up.
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January 31st, 2010
45% of Americans like their jobs?
Seems like a high number to me.
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January 31st, 2010
I think it has more to do with paying bills and feeding yourself. Most Americans are healthy and therefore insurance is just a benefit that companies offer to save money on wages.
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January 31st, 2010
The number is no doubt high and that is probably the main reason why big businesses are opposed to universal health care. When you have to rely on your job for health care, for paying off the immense debt you incurred from college, for paying off your credit card bills or mortgage that you were convinced you need, when you know that losing your job means being considered a human failure, then the companies you work for have got you by the balls and can treat you however they want.
In that way we are steadily approaching what things were like at the turn of the last century, when people went to work and came home in darkness 6 days a week, when large extended families crammed into the same unsanitary tenement, when you had to send the kids to work instead of school just to make ends meet. We aren’t that desperate of course, but the businesses are doing what they can to make people fit the same role, that of an unquestioning and obedient worker drone who has no individual freedom
But hey, at least you can join the military, then your college and health insurance and family are secured, all you have to do is drop your intestines all over the sand in some foreign desert for the advancement of the material interests for those on top
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January 31st, 2010
Many. Also, if the government would drop medicare down to age 55 I have several employees that would retire and thereby open up some jobs for younger folks. Those employees keep working solely for the insurance as they have enough to retire now.
Ash below me: You hit the nail on the head.
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February 1st, 2010
I am one, how many others? I would take a pay cut in a new york minute if I could get equal health care benefits. But nooo,,,us lazyasses just don’t deserve any health care reform, we get to continue our 12 hour days. Stupid has won again in America.
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February 1st, 2010
Obama has CRUSHED all opportunity so people taking jobs as steps to get ahead, are now STUCK on those jobs because Obama had ruined most peoples ability to fulfill their dreams
This is why NJ, VA, MA and soon NV, CA and a bunch of other states are going to send the Obama libs PACKING in 2010
ONE TERM !
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February 1st, 2010
I know I held onto a job I hated for many years because of insurance. Now I have a preexisting condition which makes private insurance unaffordable.
Even considering that, though, I do not want government run health care.
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February 1st, 2010
My boyfriend gets a really crappy pay but great health benefits for him and our son. So he keeps working. He’s only really working for the retirement plan which is also good, and the health benefits. We could make it without his small income and he could be a stay at home dad and watch our son. His income mostly supports any extras we need or want and paying the babysitter. But he works for the benefits but it’s not such a bad deal because then he is still paying into his retirement fund and the company matches it, and my job has awful healthcare for families. We would be paying almost half of my paycheck to get all three of us covered. So I’m on it by myself.
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February 1st, 2010
45% seems a little high to me.
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February 1st, 2010
Look up the word "work" in the dictionary meat. It doesn’t mention play or joy.
Some people find joy in their work but they "worked " to get it.
I guess 55% of the workforce didn’t work hard enough. The job you have is commiserate with the time one spends to improve their skills. It’s a little by-product of living in a free country.
Cry-babies like you will never be happy about anything
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February 1st, 2010
I like my job but I would be retired by now if it were not for the health care. Since I am diabetic I need my health insurance and so does my husband who has skin cancer. With preexisting conditions where do you think we would be able to afford insurance, if we could even get it.
Even though I am a union employee with a company who provides health care to their retirees I do not know how long that will last and I have a ways to go before I am qualified for medicare. Every contract the company tries to eliminate benefits for those who are retired and every contract we lose more of the retirees benefits as well as benefits for those who are working. This even though the company I work for made almost 13 billion in profits, yes billion with a B, last year. That’s profits after all expenses including health care for their employees and retirees.
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