{"id":596,"date":"2006-12-05T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T22:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/frequently-given-answers\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:20:15","slug":"frequently-given-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/frequently-given-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Given Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frequently asked question in the mail.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nDear Dickon,<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you just get a job?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Answer: Because I&#8217;ve got too much else to do. <\/p>\n<p>Answer: Because I&#8217;m too busy to get a job.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Being unemployed is a full-time job in itself, involving skills and time in order to survive. So I do have a job. It&#8217;s just atrociously paid. <\/p>\n<p>Answer: Because I&#8217;ve never lasted in the many wage-slave type jobs I&#8217;ve had in the past. It&#8217;s only a matter of time before I&#8217;m dismissed, or have to leave to avoid collapsing in tears on a daily basis. <\/p>\n<p>Answer: I AM trying to find something, it just has to be something I can do well, as opposed to pretend to do well. <\/p>\n<p>Answer: I&#8217;m too far gone. <\/p>\n<p>Answer: This IS my job. It&#8217;s a kind of busking with text. I just haven&#8217;t managed to earn money from it. Yet.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Don&#8217;t you know who I AM? <\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, of course, I do engage in a small amount of perfectly normal things for the Green Party: envelope stuffing, posting leaflets through hundreds of letterboxes, helping out here and there. It&#8217;s just that that&#8217;s all voluntary work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequently asked question in the mail. Dear Dickon, Why don&#8217;t you just get a job? Answer: Because I&#8217;ve got too much else to do. Answer: Because I&#8217;m too busy to get a job. Answer: Being unemployed is a full-time job in itself, involving skills and time in order to survive. So I do have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}