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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:15:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> But [can] we be forgiven by our families for working >50 hours per week? I
> read the USA has the longest working week, highest levels of work related
> stress and the worst divorce rates in the west.
That's the US; we don't do anything half-way! If we're going to have a
work week, we're going to have the *longest* work week. Ditto stress level
and divorce rates! Go team!
> In the field I work in everyone is writing books.... all covering the same
> data. I suppose more students in higher education means more text book
> purchases. I also find that new editions are more common these days.
In my work toward an English degree I was required to buy three different
editions of the same "Complete Works of Shakespeare." Little or nothing had
changed in the criticism or commentary; the differences were mostly in
typeface and the like. What, honestly, changes in Shakespeare from semester
to semester that necessitates a new $50 edition?
That's a rhetorical question, of course. I understand that publishers and
editors have bills to pay, too.
Dave!
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| (...) But we be forgiven by our families for working >50 hours per week? I read the USA has the longest working week, highest levels of work related stress and the worst divorce rates in the west. (...) 100% correct. In the field I work in everyone (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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