Sunday, October 6, 2019

Part time, online jobs for moms

Can someone please create a database of part-time jobs that can be done online that 1) is legit, and 2) doesn't involve annoying people on Facebook?

A friend of a friend is a consultant for 31, aka low-quality over-priced LLBean knockoffs for people who haven't heard of Lands End, and is currently hijacking my friend's friend list for a "31 Party", in which there is no actual party - just flooding your newsfeed with 96 pleas in 5 days (I counted) to order tote bags with quirky personalizations (at an extra cost) before the "party" ends.  Maybe if someone was eating a piece of celery somewhere while sipping on a riesling, I'd feel a bit differently, but alas, these types of weekend afternoon parties have gone the way of Lia Sophia into the dustbin of history.

Of course this is the friend's sorority friend.  My own sorority friends include Tupperware and Pampered Chef consultants, and I even rejected friending someone from my pledge class when I saw that her own page was nothing but Pink Zebra posts.  But, there's also other friends hawking Traveling Vineyard and Scentsy and whatever else they moved to since LulaRoe imploded, as if they never learned their lessons.  Each one posting about owning one's own business and vaguely uplifting quotes about empowerment and occasionally using the word Mompreneur.  It's the need to earn money, but without paying for daycare or a babysitter.  Back in high school, this was usually done with a part-time retail job while the kids were in school, but it appears that these jobs don't really exist any more.

What put me over the edge was this most recent hostess, who wrote that we should purchase tote bags because she made the decision to quit her teaching job to focus on her family.  You know what?  Fuck you.  I owe you crap because you made your own poor financial decision.  It's not a secret that the American economy is not structured in a way that a single-income household could thrive.  This was not exactly a secret here, and as a graduate of an elite liberal arts college, there's no excuse for not knowing.  And, if you really do think that it's an issue that a teacher can't afford child care, then fix the fucking structural barriers that prevent this.  Lobby your school district for day care.  Mobilize your union.  Don't make it sound like a $35 tote bag is going to do much to save your situation, let alone the situation of similar woman, many of whom don't have the resources to fight because of other structural barriers. Your choices are to understand the awful structure of the economy and go back to work like the rest of us, or fucking do something to change the outcomes of all women. Yes, this makes it sound like I've gone full Republican, but it's more that I've been hearing this shit from Republicans who just a few years ago were talking about the need to cut taxes and benefits.  You know, before they figured out that these cuts would impact their own lives.  You made your bed, not thinking that you were making it for yourself.  So sleep in it and stop complaining.

And, no, I didn't buy your damned ugly purses.  Your $80 bag is $39.95 at Lands End, and is now 40% off.

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