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Originally Posted by RT Wolf  I dunno how you were raised, moonrambler, but your comment reminds me of a specific christian idea that you can only find salvation in work and self-sacrifice as the Christ did it. You may not be christian, but being raised in the environment is just as good. |
This specific example isn't something that I relate to, but a very related example is the emphasis on working
hard, and how insidious that can be when you feel like you need to justify your self-employment to people who have "real" jobs," because for the longest time a lot of people seemed to see my schedule as basically completely free. So they could expect me to be free anytime and seemed to think I spent my days lying around in the yard reading novels. So I started talking to everybody about how many hours I put in. And the more I talked about it, the more hours I worked, even though it made no significant difference in my income.
My imaginary friend Pam and I used to ask another woman we know to come along with us for dinner, and she almost always was TOO busy. One night when she did come along and we hadn't seen her in about half a year, I made a kidding remark about how come she was always TOO busy to go out with us, and she got totally offended and the first thing she said to me was, "Look. I have a job!"
