employablog

There are two types of jobs in this world: the kind that give you an email address, and the kind that don’t. Is this the same thing as white collar/blue collar?

Possibly. But while my favorite shirt has white in its collar, it is also Pink and Black, and sometimes I wear a blue shirt. And what kind of collar does Employee Too wear when he’s waiting tables for yuppies? My guess is that he doesn’t wear one at all.

I mean, if we’re going to use broad occupational categories to define our identities and divide ourselves politically, lets at least use categories that make sense.

If you have an email address where the part after the @ is how you pay your rent, this implies certain things about your life. For example, you are not likely to have to talk B-list celebrities from locking you in a cellar (unless you are working at a talent agency). On the other hand, if you do not have a work address, you are not likely to remember the exact time and place when you first understood how VLOOKUP worked.

@Workers, when the Revolution™ begins let’s meet at my house, I have some wine I want to finish first.

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