About 'home health care courses'|Lewiston, ME article demonstrates widespread nature of home health care fraud
"Day Job" is an expression traditionally used by actors, writers, musicians and other "creative" types to denote, with a degree of disdain, a job taken out of necessity, as a hopefully brief detour on the road to success on one's true path. While almost any job can be a day job, some have a long history of fitting into the day job niche. Restaurant jobs, especially waiting tables, have long been taken by such reluctant participants in the job market, partly for their flexible hours. The problem with day jobs is that they can become a long-term habit. I know this from long experience. In the more than two decades that I have, theoretically, been in the job market, I've spent less than one full year employed at anything that could reasonably be called a real job. By real job, I mean a full time, non-temporary job, with benefits, where your salary is described in annual, as opposed to weekly or hourly terms. While I've never been a waiter, I have washed dishes, delivered lunches, sorted paperwork in mailrooms, been a messenger, sold falafel from a pushcart across the street from Rockefeller Center, worked cash registers in health food stores, painted a few houses and did house-sitting and errands for elderly folk. I've clocked the most hours of all doing temp data entry work for a financial institution. What have I done in my often frustrating attempts to secure a day job-free future? A little of almost everything day job haters have ever done -various one-person businesses (from selling jeans on Canal Street in New York to affiliate marketing online), trading stocks and commodities, buying and selling art and antiques, writing (articles, a couple of novels, scripts), promoting events and probably some other quixotic schemes that have temporarily slipped my ADD-inclined mind at the moment. I think the real distinguishing characteristic of a person who calls his or her job a day job is not that they are necessarily involved in the creative arts, but that they (we) are people who do not really want a job at all. Not that they are too lazy to work (though that might be true as well), but that they consider it a basic imposition on their autonomy and independence to devote a large percentage of their time to someone else's enterprise doing something that has no intrinsic meaning to their own lives. I have worked in a diversity of environments - for stereotypically soulless corporations, for "alternative" type businesses such as health food stores and natural foods cafes, for people I've called friends, and, every so often, for "creative" enterprises and I honestly cannot say that I've preferred one type of employment over the others. The truth be told, if I have to work for somebody I actually prefer a job where I can think as little as possible. This is why I've had the most success (if you can call it that) with driving jobs and data entry; in both cases I spent much of my work time listening to music or books on tape. In a service-based economy, the work force is full of people who are stuck behind cafe and book store counters and other low paying jobs in quasi hip or creative environments. Many of these mostly twenty-something employees have the look and attitude of people who see their jobs as little more than temporary inconveniences. Even if they don't call them day jobs, many of today's jobs, in an increasingly uncertain economy, are almost by necessity thought of in this manner. After all, if a job is not very satisfying or well-paying, has few if any benefits and is likely to be temporary, "day job" seems a more accurate description than, say, "career." Without a specific career path or a rare amount of luck or talent in a creative field, where are all these day job inmates going to go? The rather depressing truth is that, for many, the day job, or a long series of them, turns out to be a rather long term way of life. While there seem to be ever more day jobs, and kinds of day jobs (just look at the home health care industry, for example) to get stuck in, there are just as many planned escape routes from these fates . In addition to those who aspire to the traditional creative arts, there are all kinds of new agey professions --culinary arts, motivational speaking, feng shui experts, massage and reiki practitioners to name a few. There is yet another rather vast arena that has sprung up where people hope to escape the lot of perpetual day jobbing . This is the home business/internet marketing world. Thousands of courses, books and seminars promise to liberate the broke and unhappily employed from their dreary lot. One popular program is actually called Day Job Killer. The usual idea is to sell products, often information products such as ebooks online to buyers who pay via Paypal or credit card. These can either be products you create yourself or sell for others. In the latter case, you are an affiliate marketer. Internet marketing businesses span the gamut from borderline shady pyramid schemes (where there is no real product except the "opportunity" itself) to mainstream companies such as Amazon and Ebay, which pay out many thousands of dollars every month to affiliate marketers. Ebay, of course, is a universe of its own, with many people doing both affiliate marketing and selling their own products. Many people who are trying their hand at online marketing are not necessarily trying to escape their day job. Some are students, stay at home parents or retirees merely trying to make some extra money. Yet, just peruse the ads for information products that tell you how to make money at these endeavors and you will quickly see how the allure of escaping 9-5 is a tempting one indeed. I recently read a bestselling book called The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss. The subtitle says it all: "Escape 9-5, work from anywhere in the world and join the new rich." It certainly sounds wonderful to those of us who never bought into the idea of job security in the first place, seeing it more as a sentence than an ideal. Then there are those who may have wanted a steady, well-paying job but were unable to achieve that dream, or perhaps had it yanked out from under them for one reason or another (the dotcom crash, outsourcing of jobs to other countries, etc.). Many of the latter have been compelled to take, yes, day jobs, as their desired career paths took an unexpected detour. So it seems that today more than ever there are thousands, perhaps millions of people toiling away at jobs that they hope to leave behind as soon as possible. Or stuck in a rut they have become resigned to, which might be even worse. We can look at this as a by-product of a period of radical transition in our economy and society in general. At the same time as traditional institutions such as large corporations are becoming less reliable in their ability (or willingness) to guarantee cradle-to-grave security and predictability, individuals are becoming more sophisticated in their understanding of what it means to be fulfilled, prosperous and free. It seems likely that neither the traditional career nor the day job will prove sufficient to perform these functions by 21st Century standards. I wish I could end this inquiry on a more definitive note, but I cannot offer much of a prediction on what will replace such traditions. I do, however, intend to pursue these questions and keep you informed of my findings. Hopefully, in the not to distant future I will have more time to devote to such meanderings -but first I have to kick my own day job habit. |
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