The Institute for Social Research, which I'm assuming is not a made-up organization, fired off a press release announcing, in short, that bad jobs make bad moms.
That must mean I am the worst mother in the world! you chortle to yourself. Then you wonder, after the internal chortling dissipates, what qualifies as a bad job? Surely this study is referring to salt-mine workers or sweatshop seamstresses or prostitutes for the morbidly obese IBS sufferers who are addicted to Ernest movies.
But no. You know which people have the "bad" jobs? Nurses. Therapists. Elementary school teachers.
That's if you have a college degree. For the less educated, it's "assemblers" (assemblers of what? Vibrators?), "cleaners" (carpet cleaners? Dry cleaners? Murder-scene cleaners?), foremen, and nurse's aides. (What the deal with nursing? Isn't that supposed to be a fulfilling profession?)
The study determined the badness of a job based on pay, hours, and stress. I went to a therapist once, and she didn't seem too stressed when she collected my 160 bucks in cash for an hour's work that in Therapist World is only 50 minutes long.
I think using the pay/hours/stress formula, the baddest job in the world is...actually being a mom. You go, badass moms!
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