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Show We, the Women You're Not 'Lucky' to Have A Job You Dislike By RUTH MUXETT I suppose I ought to be darn glad I have a Job," the unhappy woman always adds' after the bat voiced her dissatisfaction with her work. And with that line she talks herself out of doing any- thing about her situation. When she faces her problem honestly, hon-estly, she sees that she Is In work she doesnt like; that she Is on a dead-end street; and that In all likelihood she won't be any better off la five years than she Is today. to-day. Every so often she has to let off steam, and so she complains to her family or to a friend. And then she winds up with "1 suppose 1 ought etc" That Is the signal for her to quit thinking of anything better and to get back In the old treadmill. She would be a lot better off If r would examine that statement carefully. Should she be glad to have her job? Maybe. But maybe she Is working at a routine job that she can do without with-out half trying. It may be she Is e " earning only a small percentage of what her ability and brain could earn. Perhaps she Is working In circumstances so uncongenial no one but a moron could be happy in them. . J It Is possible. And If any of those Is true. Is she lucky to have the Job? If she was able to get that job and hold It Isn't It reasonable to suppose she can get another and hold It It she puts her mind to it trying as earnestly as she did for the job she now hss? There Is a difference between , being -reliable .and belng . timid. Many a woman sticks to work she hates simply because she always ends "facing facts" with the defeatism de-featism of "I guess I'm lucky to have any kind, of job." |