ù Quoting D.E. Bryant from a message to Don Box  ù 
-> Maybe you should rearrange your perspective; you'd probably have a
-> lot more success.
DB> Thank you for your comments, Don.  I was wondering what you would say 
DB> to me.  Change my perspective, you suggest.  Yes, i will have to be 
DB> more discriminating about what is truly important in life and living. 
DB> Perhaps YOU might review your own perspective as well.  If people are 
What a lot of people don't understand is that when they talk about 
opportunity,
I hear "McDonald's" ... at least in my town, there _are_ plenty of jobs. But 
it
doesn't do you any good to work 40 hours a week and not make enough to pay 
rent. Contrary to what you might hear on this echo (that I'm a lazy whiner), 
I 
work 40 hours a week, and make almost $10/hr, which is one of the better jobs 
I've ever had. After taxes, I make about $544 every two weeks. That's 
basically
how much my rent and utilities are. So out of my next paycheck must come 
insurance, food, whatever. After all that, I have basically no money left and 
am scrounging until pay day comes.
Basically, I make twice the minimum wage (luckily) and have little to no 
opportunity to save any money (which is what gives a person stability). There 
are people where I work that are twice my age and make the same amount of 
money. Looking at them and looking at myself is where I get my "perspective" 
... people automatically assume that if you complain about getting ripped off 
at every step, by employers, by the government, etc. that you are a lazy, 
whining bum. 
To me, opportunity means getting the chance to be overworked and underpaid 
for 
the rest of your life.
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