Surviving the Workday

Dear Ms. Theologian:I just started a job. I was unemployed for five months and I’m really grateful for it. The trouble is that I don’t have any vacation days accrued so I’m working pretty much through Christmas, December 23rd, 26th, 31st. I’m trying not to feel resentful….but you got any advice?

–Grateful

Dear Grateful –

Ms. Theologian advises gaining some perspective. Sometimes life is hard and we have to do things we don’t want to do. You are gainfully employed. Enjoy it.

All that stuff you see on TV and hear from people is just hype. Real life is getting up in the middle of the night to wipe vomit from your partner’s mouth. It’s illness and starvation. Real life is miscarriages and dead pets. It’s war and genocide. Real life involves people you love dying.

It is also penultimate joy and love and snuggling.

You can deal with working through the holidays.

Ms. Theologian

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