Tuesday’s (Aug 22) The Telegraph’s report by Richard Owen says that the Pope Benedict XVI feels that excessive working in office can lead to ‘hardness of heart and suffering of the spirit’. People in government offices in India will feel elated by this holy approval, eager as they are anyway to skirt delivering even the minimum ‘statutory’ responsibility.
Who says office is all work? (Picture source)
But not all can be happy. As an adjoining TT report of the same day says, US workers are either too ambitious or terrified to take holidays. Being ambitious carries the extra luggage of missing the upward ladder if your are on leave. That may still be better, but suppose you discover after a long absence that your place is no longer yours, but someone else’s, it’s more than a nightmare coming true.
Seems Pope’s advice is reserved for office-goers. What about housewives, or for that matter, househusbands? Any concern there? Yes, if you’ve seen the ‘salary.com’ website of late. Its Mom Salary Wizard informs that while wholetime stay-at-home moms earn a not-to-be-seen salary of $134,121 annually, their part-time colleagues’ (those who go out for work) home earnings would be $85,876 for a year.
Work-at-home dads may not fret and fume. Salary.com has a Dad Salary Wizard as well, only that there’re no readymade estimates given. This probably means work-at-home dads are a rarity. Any thoughts?
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