“Of course, it stresses me out not to have health insurance, but what is my choice? Work in an office and be unhappy? Being happy is a superhigh value to me.”
this doesn't actually sound so unreasonable to me!
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
but hey she's "living paycheck to paycheck" lol
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
anyway can we all just agree that the nyt is just really shitty at coming up w/ examples of people worth any sympathy
but I mean the ~idea~ of poor young people juggling crappy jobs, I mean they do exist, I can help them find some next time
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
HARK! AN EXPERT:
But beware: Too much multitasking makes it harder to sustain attention, according to Kirk Snyder, an assistant professor of communications at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, who researches the changing workplace values of Gen Y.
and BEHOLD! A BUZZWORD:
More college graduates are working in second jobs that don’t require college degrees, part of a phenomenon called “mal-employment.” In short, many baby-sitters, sales clerks, telemarketers and bartenders are overqualified for their jobs.
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, I can't afford a Burberry raincoat. I am no longer sympathetic.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Bartenders with college degrees! Well, I never!
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
an assistant professor of communications
wonder what that pays
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
I could probably afford a Burberry raincoat if I lived in a cheaper hood a d drank cheaper beer. NYT! Call me!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
ya i think u guys see it. its subtle but its there
yeah atp i think taking actual real world problems - high youth unemployment/underemployment, declining wages - & using them as a pretext to profile aspiring actresses slash spin class instructors who live on the upper west side is quintessential nyt q+a
― Lamp, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
"It’s exhausting. Sometimes I just want to take a nap."
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UMdxOpBQpdI/S7s9RxmxoPI/AAAAAAAADJU/wc1g8gli5DM/s400/coal-miner.jpg
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
work in an office; be unhappy
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
there u go, Lamp otm
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
This kind of calls back to the nyt articles where they were detailing how young people were making ends meet by living with their parents after college or moving back in when good jobs dried up.
However, they still had parents with pretty good jobs, iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
i mean fair enough i work in an office which makes me a bit unhappy but i don't think that is a universal condition!
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
no offense, but "an actress; an assistant to dance instructors at the Circle in the Square and Juilliard schools; a baby-sitter; and a variety of administrative roles and as a spinning instructor at SoulCycle, an indoor cycling studio in New York" is not four jobs. It's a lot of stuff to be doing but it's not four career tracks. by that logic, I have like nine jobs right now
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
When in fact i really only have two or three
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
four if you count "ilx mod"
"Sometimes I just wanna take a ban"
I work in an office and I don't know if it's my optimal career, but a lot of office jobs are pretty good these days! Competitive edge benefits like on-site fitness facilities, flex time, ability to work from home occasionally, and a few other things are getting more standard in part of the corporate world.
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah forks otm... like the one guy who managed the online vintage store AND ALSO was building an online pinata store? that is not two jobs; that kinda sounds like one job with two clients.
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
online pinata store is kind of lol-worthy
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
that part really truly sounded made up
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Scattered young people who can't get their shit together struggling to make ends meet.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
there is a pinata store in my neighborhood. i should ask if they need a web store!
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Unrealistic business ideas are generating 20% less revenue than they did in 2007.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
what is a spinning instructor
― onimho (dayo), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb234/vurdlak8/2007b.gif
― onimho (dayo), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
she tells you how fast to spin iirc
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah I feel like most of the people profiled for the article have pretty big safety nets
― onimho (dayo), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Some one who teaches a spin class, which is an exercise class taken on specially designed stationary bikes.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lordshaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/spinner-blade-runner.jpg
― onimho (dayo), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
spin class is pretty rough, imo
(white people problems)
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I go to spin class w/ my gf sometimes
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
spinning to techno cotton eyed joe remix living the life
WE'RE COMING UP ON A HILL NOW PEOPLE
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol I came back from meetings and thread has gone exactly where I wanted to take it at 5.01PM after Tracer's post.
I was gonna say, feels like all the profiled kids have parents they can call on "those months" when they CAN'T MAKE RENT.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Damn, looks like it's one of those months again!"
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
"I should probably try to get out of the Madewell store sooner next time."
what is it like to live in new york
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Actually p sure spinning instructors from the UWS don't wear Madewell but I don't know what they do wear so
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Do the people at the nyt know about this thread?
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Wait. I mean, do the people who write these articles at the nyt know about it.
There's always the possibility that they read ilx and most all their Style and Real Estate content is just trolling us.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
were sort of an unpaid focus group for them, make sure theyre hitting their intended targets etc
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
I often get that feeling Laurel.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Is the prerequisite a class on carding, and is it a prerequisite for weaving? If you get an A, can you take an honors class in distaff use?
Oh, wait...not that type of spinning. Sorry.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5431/spinners2ta0.gif
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Jeff, Jesse, and I took a spin class once and a guy spread his gym issued towel over the handlebars and spat phlegm into it throughout the entire class.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
That's how we do spin class in Chicago.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
*barf*
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link