quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

"It’s exhausting. Sometimes I just want to take a nap."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UMdxOpBQpdI/S7s9RxmxoPI/AAAAAAAADJU/wc1g8gli5DM/s400/coal-miner.jpg

work in an office; be unhappy

there u go, Lamp otm

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

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!

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

When in fact i really only have two or three

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.

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.

online pinata store is kind of lol-worthy

that part really truly sounded made up

Scattered young people who can't get their shit together struggling to make ends meet.

there is a pinata store in my neighborhood. i should ask if they need a web store!

Unrealistic business ideas are generating 20% less revenue than they did in 2007.

what is a spinning instructor

http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb234/vurdlak8/2007b.gif

she tells you how fast to spin iirc

but yeah I feel like most of the people profiled for the article have pretty big safety nets

Some one who teaches a spin class, which is an exercise class taken on specially designed stationary bikes.

http://www.lordshaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/spinner-blade-runner.jpg

spin class is pretty rough, imo

(white people problems)

I go to spin class w/ my gf sometimes

spinning to techno cotton eyed joe remix living the life

WE'RE COMING UP ON A HILL NOW PEOPLE

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.

"Damn, looks like it's one of those months again!"

"I should probably try to get out of the Madewell store sooner next time."

what is it like to live in new york

Actually p sure spinning instructors from the UWS don't wear Madewell but I don't know what they do wear so

Do the people at the nyt know about this thread?

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.

were sort of an unpaid focus group for them, make sure theyre hitting their intended targets etc

I often get that feeling Laurel.

what is a spinning instructor

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.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5431/spinners2ta0.gif

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.

That's how we do spin class in Chicago.

*barf*

I have done a 180 and agree w you guys about the multiple jobs article.. it is thee classic set up - a real issue refracted down through this narrow slice of demography.

For context, that guy was an exceptionally attractive, upbeat, toned olive-skinned. Upbeat, as in, he said a lot of "Woooo! Yeah!!!" and he sometimes added, "Hork!"

you sit on it and do the spinning i guess?

lol you gave me awesome t-shirt idea: stationary cycle with caption "Sit on it and spin"

Mr. Fierro describes himself as “MacGyver.” He might have to transport some furniture, “read and synthesize documents, find obscure bits of information on Google and give presentations in Spanish, all in one day,” he says.

um, so, he has to read, use the internets, and talk about stuff (because if you are fluent enough to present in spanish it's really just presenting, point). and he sometimes moves furniture. on the same day even? this doesn't really sound all that difficult or unusual? most people use google? "synthesize" documents -> don't put this on your resume

i feel kind of bad though, probably they were told by parents/teachers at college to follow your dreams and not worry a thing about racking up $100K+ in debt for a liberal arts degree, so long as you're doing what you love. um...

In Las Cruces, my best male friend taught a spinning (fake bike) class, and one of my best female friends taught a spinning (lol wool) class, and keeping the idea of "spin" straight was impossible.

feel like they could combine the two and have something there

I really want to somehow connect the pinata store in this thread with the "human pinata" quote in the madoff thread but I'm drawing a blank.