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[new] The Single Rights Movement, and then some (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#6)
by amy on Sat Nov 15th, 2003 at 06:46:12 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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As a Single Person (SP), I often feel marginalized by discussions of family vs. work committments. I liked how in Aileen's initial post, it referred to a variety of complications that can come up in the course of having "a life." And I also gibe with Joe's comment about "if one has no life, what does one make work about?" However, I've found most discussions of work/personal committments veer heavily toward the issue of "personal=family". This has been the case in all of the several occupations I've been involved in, from retail to the entertainment industry to art to academia, and each time it seems to take on the tone of "if we were involved in a less demanding occupation, we wouldn't have these work/family conflicts."

So then, two points: First, I think this problem occurs in just about every field, or else I just have really bad luck. The only people I've met, at least in the US, who didn't seem to have this problem were unionized workers and certain clerical workers. "Work" just makes too much of a demand on personal time everywhere you look. From recent editorials in US news magazines, one might think that this situation is American-specific, because Americans take very little vacation and define themselves by their jobs and by the things they buy with their money from their jobs. However, from the international nature of the posts and the comments in this thread, it sounds like the magazines are not to be believed. People seem to be working too much all over.

Second point: we might not have the same family committments as y'all, but us single folk have lives too! In some cases, I've been expected to do extra work by colleagues because they have a family and I don't, so therefore, I should have more time to do work. I've occasionally thought of hiring actors to play a husband and children, just so I could have time to take care of the household chores and appointments that still have to get done, family or no family. So, now, everybody chant along: "We're single, we're here, get used to it." Umm, hmm, well, I'll keep working on that...



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