The past two days I have been stopped at the front door of interviews for positions for which I was entirely qualified three times because I wouldn’t work all of the posted part-time hours. Like – We posted for 20, you’re offering 15, no thanks.
Um, What’s the goal?
In his book, ‘The 4-Hour Work Week,’ Tim Ferriss makes the case that if you hand someone a 40-hour, full-time job description with a list of specific objectives it will take that person all 40 hours to get it done. Yet, if you hand someone the same description of objectives to be accomplished in their 20-hour, half-time work week, she/he will get it done exactly as successfully.
My mischevious mind thinks the result’s are probably better in the less-time-to-get-it-done schedule. More of, “What’s most important?” as the daily/hourly starting point.
But who cares? So what if I remain an unemployed, now what do I do, considering asking for quarters on the corner of 15th and Broadway, abundance of time to hang out with trees and birds, undiscovered treasure trove of heart-mind human service Ch’an cat who’s under-employed mind gets looser and looser each Spring day.
So what?
from a mountain bench 
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