There is a question that never fails in any conversation when you meet someone ..."¿ that you do? ". I fully understand that is one of the typical questions which serve to start a conversation, but the truth is that every time that little question me more mosque.
People seem to ask, expecting to hear a satisfactory response rate, "I'm studying psychology," I am a nurse in the hospital Ramon y Cajal "or" I'm studying law while working in a clothing store. "If people do not do more than wait for answers which are accustomed to listening, and me, they always disappoint. Every time I ask that question, I can only bite my tongue and respond" dignity "not work ... and no study. To which obviously I respond ..."¡ Oh, are you one of those now emerging Ninis on TV right? ... yes, yes, those children neither working nor studying ...
"Nini? ... Maybe I should not bother, not even offended because I do not feel identified with that word, but I can not stop bothering me. Why, here goes.
Every morning I wake up at 10:00 am so, from that hour until 11:00, I read the newspaper, browsing social networking sites and visited some blogs. From 11:00 to 13:00, two hours pass with my partner, which makes breakfast, makes his bed, talking about what will happen in the day, we managed ... In short, what is usually done long before you leave home and "start the day."
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I get home at about the 13:30 and from then until 15:00, I write in one of my major projects (a book, which I hope to publish soon, followed by many others). From 15:00 to 15:30 I have to eat that, but I have to make dinner, so the schedule was delayed until 16:00 or 16:30, with what to pick up the kitchen. After that, I have to turn to help my mother with the computer, explains how the printer, Word, PowerPoint and all that probably will not use, but out of curiosity, she wants to learn. If my father is at home, then turn it is to him ... if you find me this, that if that make me, if I can record not what, that if you cleanse it from there, if you help me to wire the room, that if the grandfather has told me to go down to tune not what channels .. do not know what unit (unit which will have been tuned a thousand times before.) And time is left, subtracting a shower for a relaxed stay and dinner, about me remaining about three hours to devote to what I want. And what is that?, For that is trying to keep this blog alive, to continue writing about my big project, finish painting pictures and paintings that build up behind the doors of the rooms, the walls of the room and terrace. And all this, until 01:00 am, at which point I called my partner to go and find the meter so you can spend the night together, until the next morning.
seems simple, practical, and not boring at all, as many say ... what really seems, is that I have "all the time in the world." Yes, that's another great phrases that workers use for the unemployed ... have all the time in the world. And a po ... I want to tell!. All the time in the world? ... Is it that your days have 24 hours like mine?.
In 24 hours, subtract 8 hours of sleep for example, 2 hours for three meals a day, 1 hour to shower, grooming, etc ... That leaves us ... 13 hours. Of those 13 hours, discounted one hour between coming and going from home to your family, deduct another hour or so, the time it takes to go shopping at the supermarket, going to buy paintings, or what you do need ... (and we all know that the more we think we have everything we need something more.) Removes the time to clean or pick up and cooking every meal ... about 2 hours. That brings us to ... 9. Of these 9, subtract 1 hour for the toilet, 1 to 2 hours to explain to your mother needs to know everything about computers, or how clean the hood or whatever .. just comes to mind do, and which obviously counting on your help. Resta also, 2 to 3 hours, by the time you spend with your father and his work. And make a couple of days, remove the tasks that you perform for your partner ... if sanding a door, if then paint with acrylic drawings, if after varnish ... now, if I happened to also painted the bed ... in order. Nine hours, we stayed at ... 3 or 4. Of which has to paint, write, go to the doctor, psychologist and be available for any mishap. Whether you kill a cockroach in the kitchen, sweep the crumbs left by your brother at every turn, or discuss with your neighbor to see who comes out before the portal.
Are you sure I have all the time in the world?. Because there is actually something that people do not realize, is that people who are unemployed are people who do everything that workers do not. Those that stay home and clean each room, make each bed, go out and buy the food they cook later, help their parents or siblings to care for their children, are maintained accounts of the house, going to the bank every day and see the red of his book while pulling the pelos.Son those who endure the bad responses from their partners because of their work, their children enduring days after day since leaving school when he did not appreciate anything that is done for them ... are, after all, people who are available to others, 24 hours a day.
This is not to say that there are people who work and also make some of these tasks, but I can safely say ... that not even be available to all, no more than 1 hour a day.
And for those who do not think so, I will clarify with two examples.
1 º. My father works 8 hours a day, which lost two more to go home from work. To get eaten, finished her work issues which may take from 1 hour to 4 depending on the day. Visit their parents (not every day), go to neighbors' complaints, goes buy ... etc. The time spent with my mother, is the time you spend on lunch and dinner and the rest is the time spent resting, watching TV and sleeping. As a worker, you need rest, just need to watch TV to escape a bit of work and therefore be able to return the next morning somewhat refreshed. Of the 24 hours that has day, time spent with me is the meal, because the time watching TV, clearly, is resting.
2 º. My partner works 10 hours a day in a restaurant, to which are added two more to come and go underground. Leaves home at 13:00 and again that by 01:00 or 02:00 on the morning, depending on the day. Of those 12 hours that detract from the day, 8 hours of sleep are between 1 and 2, shower, breakfast ... etc. The total time we spent together, being aware of it, is 2 to 3 hours, in which only hears of work. It follows that the time of enjoyment, leisure, relaxation of privacy or whatever, is almost zero.
Now, add another quite different example, that of an unemployed person.
1 º. My mother is unemployed for four years. He gets up at 06:00 am with my father, prepare clothes and breakfast. When he goes, he is awake and, clean the house, going to the cleaners, makes the shopping, preparing food, put the washing machine, tends the grill (in my house are four people, so imagine what supposed to do laundry ... or worse, having to iron them), talk to their parents by phone and her sister (since they live outside the city, however when found in Madrid, makes a one-hour trip one way and another back, to be with them, wash them, the food, prepare the medication, make them buy the same thing ... a go, but in another home). In the afternoon, not having had enough, focuses on helping my father with the affairs of their work, learn some information with me, check out his in-laws, devotes little time to spare, to talk to me about anything, attend to my brother, prepare dinner, and after collecting the kitchen, sits at last on the couch watching TV for a while with my father until he falls asleep. His day "does not work," begins each day at 06:00 am and ends at 23:00. 24-hour in the day, spending 18 hours moving from one side to another ... ten more hours than you expend any worker. And best of all is that not only struggle to get a place for others and be ready for anything, not only supports her husband in his job crisis in addition to their children, but also does all this without receivable.
And yes, perhaps this is where your great response arrives, "that's their job." And if, here, here I ask, is it not also the work of any other person?, Do if it is a work, if their "work" should not be equally recognized?. Did you follow really thinking, which is not only an unemployed person, but it has all the time in the world?. If the answer to this last question is "YES" ... welcome to the world of "give it all done" because it probably is you who are waiting for these people.
All women like my mother, work 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
March 8th day of the working woman. "
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