Janitor: The Job Everybody Wants
When I first saw this headline at Drudge, “Ohio school gets 700 applicants – for one janitorial job,” I intended to make fun of it until I counted till ten and thought to myself “wait, this is a job too. Why shouldn’t people want it? Why should we automatically make fun of people applying for a janitor’s job?”
Of course it’s a sign of the current crisis – normally, most of these people would apply for other jobs. But the 700 isn’t merely a sign of the dire situation many Americans find themselves in, it’s also a sign of their resiliance and of their determination to make the best of a difficult situation. They could also give up and wait for the government to bail them out. Instead, they go out and apply for a job most of us don’t want.
That’s personal responsibility in action.
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“That’s personal responsibility in action.”
yup, it sure is, just one more example of how there are more people in this country that still beleive in personal responsability, rather than “community care”, “socialism”, (call it what you want).
Right, if you had to mop floors to feed your children because it was the only job you could find, you’d do it. You wouldn’t be a man otherwise.