Trying To Smile About Your Shitty Wage
There are often times in New York life when you will think to yourself: “Would I be making more money if I wasn’t making any […]
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Grappling With Your “Integritous” Self & The Self That Needs Money on A Daily Basis
Every day, we go to war, not just with our employer, but with ourselves. We wake up each morning a little bit closer to the […]
…In the Rich Man’s World
ABBA often gets criticized for making music that possesses a lack of, shall we say, timelessness. And yet, one of their most trapped-in-the-70s-musically songs, “Money, […]
Know Your Worth
In America, the measure of who you are is made by how much money you make. Even if you’re a middling office worker, at least, […]
The Only Thing Worse Than Having a Job Is Not Having One
For as much as one (me) complains of the endless vexations involved in being required to be somewhere at a certain time and to prostrate […]
All Homeless People In Midtown Used to Be Office Workers: A Theory
Though it’s pretty to think that the real reason such a high concentration of homeless people gather in Midtown is because they know tourists are […]
The Master
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s possibly best film, The Master, Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells his acolyte, “If you figure a way to live without […]
Working to Live, Not Living to Work
Just as they say you should eat to live, not live to eat (though I don’t know how much one can agree with that in […]
Always Working, Always Broke
It’s strange and inexplicable, but it seems that the more a person works, the more they continue to simply break even, which is, in New […]