I believe that in the essay The (Futile) Pursuit of the
American Dream and To Work Better, Work Less both have similiar comparisons of
some points within of working long hours. There are multiple reasons for
working long hours and some of us are known to overwork themselves and never
have time for leisure time at home. Cody Delistraty, explains why people
overwork themselves and some causes of that. He states, “…as focus simply cannot
be sustained for much more than 50 hours a week…. Of course, some low-income
workers are forced to work long hours or multiple jobs just to make ends meet.”
We don’t often choose to want to work long hours although because of needed the
money we would do what it ever it takes to get what we need. In the essay The
(Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich she oversees a
reasoning why some over work themselves by “overemployment”. She states of another
author, Juliet Schor, “stressed-out white-collar employees who put in ten-to
twelve-hour-long days at the office, continue to work on their laptops in the
evening at home and remain tethered to the office by cell phone even on
vacations and holidays.” She stresses that even when one needs or has a day off
we are always connected to our job, for the need to be on top to get a higher
pay with the current job. No amount of hours are enough to be in the place that
they need to be at to have the necessities needed.
At the end of the short story the author starting to talk about how simple things will go while working as a white-collar individual. She stated that, “I also started with the expectation that this project would be far less demanding than the work I had undertaken for Nickle and Diamond.” She later stated, “As it turns out, I was wrong on all counts”. The author stating this shows that she thought a certain way about other people and thought they had less work to do because of their class level when in reality, they have been working as hard as she was or even harder.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Maragrita saying that the section in the book is about having similar comparisons within working longing hours. Ehrenreich talks about quite a bit about why we work so many hours and the struggles of us working so many hours. She talks about," because I've written a lot about poverty, I'm used to hearing from people in scary circumstances." This really opens up her section on why people have to work so much and try to acquire the jobs that they need to support themselves. The economy isn't so great with our country in debt and jobs are scarce. A lot of people just have to do what they need to do to support themselves. She also talks about how individuals work harder to get a better job. How people have to really sell themselves to beat others.
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