12
Oct
Posted in Appreciation | No Comments »
photo credit: joshua aaron
Happy Columbus Day!
True, it’s one of our more dubious American holidays, placed so closely with Canadian Thanksgiving as to seem a second thought (not that Canadian Thanksgiving is a second thought, at least not to Canadians). Today, many hardworking American folks aren’t even awarded the day off for Columbus’s troubles.
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Tags: 2009, canadian thanksgiving, christopher columbus, columbus day, columbus's diary, discovery of america, europe, finding a job, fourth grade, getting lucky, indian trails, italian, Job Search, navigational skills, october 12, pumpkin ale, spain, syphilis, the new world, unemployment rate
2
Oct
Posted in Dept. of Labor | No Comments »
photo credit: Peter Martin Hall
How many hours a week do you work, or not work, as the case may be? If I estimate my hours back in May or before, I get something like this, on average:
Monday: 15 hours (7 am-10 pm)
Tuesday: 8 hours (10 am-6 pm)
Wednesday: 9 hours (10 am-7 pm)
Thursday: 10 hours (10 am-8 pm)
Friday: 9 hours (10 am-7 pm)
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Tags: 168 hours, 33 hours per week, 9.8, friends' weddings, furloughs, hours per week, jobless rate, L.A. Times, labor estimates, off-roading, reduced hours, scrapbooking, unemployment rate, working for the weekend
