This is the 400th job articles/ blog post.
Jan. 7, 2017 "Without a title and paycheck, who are we?": Today I found this article by Leah Eichler in the Globe and Mail:
With a new year comes New Year’s resolutions.
On a personal level, they may include dieting and exercising, but professionally many of us set goals to work harder and achieve more, believing the extra work and obligations will make us better people.
But what if they don’t?
Politicians and pundits often talk about employment as the ultimate solution to a variety of social problems, but we are already close to full employment. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has said a U.S. unemployment rate of between 4 per cent and 6.4 per cent constitutes full employment.
Currently, the rate in the United States stands at 4.7 per cent and in Canada at 6.9 per cent.
Rather than focus on creating more jobs, we need to recognize the correlation between income and work may no longer make any sense.
Currently, the rate in the United States stands at 4.7 per cent and in Canada at 6.9 per cent.
Rather than focus on creating more jobs, we need to recognize the correlation between income and work may no longer make any sense.
It’s a fascinating theory presented in a book called No More Work: Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea by James Livingston, who is a professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
He suggests there simply isn’t enough work to go around that allows for a living wage. We may be entering a post-jobs society and this presents two major problems: how to survive financially and what to do with your time if you do end up shucking work altogether.
Dr. Livingston recommends a guaranteed-income approach, such as the Province of Ontario is studying. The trick is ensuring it gains acceptance, since getting “something for nothing is intolerable for us,” he said in a phone interview. However, he’s optimistic we can evolve and learn to “be our brother’s keeper.”
The challenging part about not working is in many ways more spiritual, and it comes down to how we spend our time. In our culture, working is how we define our character and create our personal sense of identity.
For ages, work defined everything from your status, to gender to morality. When that disappears, we feel less secure in our personal definitions of ourselves.
For ages, work defined everything from your status, to gender to morality. When that disappears, we feel less secure in our personal definitions of ourselves.
Dr. Livingston suggests you don’t learn much about your character by working for minimum wage in a dead-end job. So if we really want to rethink what work means in the future, we need to not only decouple income from labour, but also reimagine who we are as individuals without a title and paycheque.
There are some who are already trying to redefine their answer to the perennial question: “What do you do?”
Vanessa Serra Iarocci, an associate vice-president at TD Wealth in Toronto, is one of them. A self-declared workaholic, Ms. Iarocci decided to take a one-year sabbatical last August after being employed in professional services for 17 years. She has since become an evangelist for the practice.
“Work has always been my priority, 100 per cent. I don’t know if it was turning 40, but I thought this is the year to explore other things in life,” Ms. Iarocci said.
She had no definitive plans for the year, but ended up spending more time with family and recharging her energy. Then, opportunities started to present themselves and she began working with the Rotman School of Business as an executive-in-residence on a volunteer basis. She also took some courses at Stanford and Google, and found “the opportunity to upgrade her brain” a highly valuable experience.
But Ms. Iorocci’s big “aha moment” was discovering that work isn’t just a place you go to make money, but rather a destination to leverage your talent and make an impact.
My opinion: I always thought work was about using your talent and helping people, with making money.
My opinion: I always thought work was about using your talent and helping people, with making money.
“I really felt when people asked me what do you do, that I defined myself by my job title. But really everyone has a portable tool kit of what they offer the world that is not at all linked to anything bigger than themselves. After a while, you get this self-confidence that, even if I don’t have a job, I’m not irrelevant. I have a lot to offer,” she said.
Sonia Montoni also left a big role at real estate manager Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions to take time off to rethink her approach to work. She ended up landing a role at another firm as its director of finance, where she could work “smarter” rather than harder.
“It’s about enabling everyone around me so that everyone has a better quality of life. You don’t get gold stars for staying at work until midnight,” she said.
So what are you going to do, other than work, in 2017?
That question used to be applied only to the economic elite, but as employment continues not to pay the bills for many, and governments adopt new ways to ensure its citizens are taken care of, learning who we are without work will play a critical role in human development.
Harry the Hound
Andrew from Toronto
Our resource-rich country has ample opportunity for everyone. Simply stop exporting raw materials, by rather selling refined products and keeping the high-paying, stable jobs in Canada.
What is amazing, is that something this obvious isn't being done, but then the feudal barons who own this country control the conversation. Hopefully Trump and the conservative party leadership race open up debate for the voice of the people to be heard.
Minimum income will spawn a new renaissance.
I'd appreciate this article be reconsidered, or fine tuned, with a chart of "employment" over the last 50 years in the US or Canada as a base. I think the conclusions are similar, but there's already a generational low, and continuing to sink, work force participation rate. Given the topic of the article, it would be better researched to include this perspective.
Before 1973, wages rose along with productivity. Since then, wages have stagnated while productivity continues to rise accruing to the few.
I have said before, "The only thing worse than working is being unemployed." While tongue in cheek it also has a level of truth to it.
Most of us work but fear of being unemployed - with the social pariah hood that accompanies it - inhibits many of us from exploring other ways of participating and creating meaning in life.
Of course, not having enough money to survive is also a fear, but as the article discusses there just may not be enough work to go around in the future. So then what? That is what we have to determine on a societal and personal level.
Societally it is important that people are engaged in meaningful pursuits - whether they have over economic value or not - to avoid alienation, and the host of attendant ills that accompany it.
Personally, most if not all of us want to be doing something we consider meaningful, and still have enough economic means to meet our needs. Having the confidence, motivation, opportunity and means is essential. But how do we do it?
You have never been stalked. Being stalked overrides everything.
Women should be do their traditional jobs of Wife, Mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, home maker etc. ~ That would be the first step.
I remember reading some years ago about an experiment where scientists brought all the food a colony of birds needed every day to their island in the ocean. Without the need to go and catch their food, the entire social structure broke down - normal mating, nesting, looking after young was abandoned and there was violence and anarchy in its place.
Humans are animals too and I've no doubt we'd see the same result. Too much leisure time is a real problem, as we already see. Idle hands are the Devil's playground.
Lady, you have been had. Just like a lot of women. By business. In the 1960s there were a number of articles about women in the work force. Few if any about women at home. Gradually the number of articles increased. And as the number of articles increased, the number of women in the work force increased. The country increased in wealth.
However, more people in the work force meant competition for jobs and lowering of wages. Good for business. Then in the 90s it was almost mandatory that you had to be in the work force to be anybody. This is reflected in the article. The two income family became the norm. Some argued that two incomes were required. Maybe some truth in that since real wages were lower. How damaging the two income family can be is seen by considering when a two income family becomes a one income family. There is a job for an unemployed. One less unemployed, less welfare cost. Less taxes required. So a one income family is the good thing. Meanwhile business smiles.
Not sure what you're on about, Art, but the traditional "family" is gone, people live in various configurations, temporary and permanent, and often without a thought of a child in the mix (ladies love their canines to satiate their maternal instinct these days). And adults do what they want, re careers, jobs, etc. No-one cares about the macro society, the adults just wanna do what we wanna do, and these days we can! So we're all smiling!
Marxist society has a flip side: Nazism. ~ "arbeit macht frei"
Women have been "had". They have provided a lot flexibility for society to re-shape the workforce, however, are often very poorly treated for their efforts, both individually, and collectively.
Effectively, women are second class members of society economically, whether they be the likes of Carrie Fisher (with a $50MM insurance policy on her head) or that young prospective lawyer who can't get a decent articling job and is now looking at returning to school for a third degree in order to achieve employability. Not only does business smile, but government smiles too.
Andrew from Toronto
6 hours ago
"Post-jobs" may be great for educated, self-motivated folks with a history of achievement. It may be terrible for those who grow up with no ob prospects and many role models of people in similar situation. Specifically, look at the FN communities that have a culture of hopelessness and dependency as the dark side of the "post-jobs" world.
Jan. 11, 2017 "There will always be work- it's part of the human condition": Today I found this article by Brian Lee Crowley in the Globe and Mail:
Can we run out of work?
Donald Trump’s supporters fear so. For them the Rust Belt is the future unless things change. Many futurists also see the end of work due to mechanisation, and argue for giving people a basic income because if work is unavailable we need to give them the means to survive.
I can see their point. Employment in manufacturing throughout the industrialised world has fallen dramatically over the past few decades. A stubbornly unemployable underclass, often made up of poorly-educated men, haunts our societies and our politics.
Some academics are arguing that almost half of all existing work is vulnerable to mechanisation, including much hitherto unassailably-human brainwork. In a few years we won’t even be driving anymore as machines gently shunt us away from tasks we have so far performed for ourselves.
This nightmare scenario of vast armies of purposeless human wraiths wandering the earth, despite its emotional resonance, however, is not borne out in the real world.
First, the idea that there is a fixed amount of work is quite wrong, making the fact machines do a growing amount of work irrelevant. Work is necessary to satisfy human wants and needs, and these are infinite.
Think about how much of the average person’s time is spent pondering what they would do if only they had the resources. Every time you picture the addition you want to put on the house, the pleasure you could get from the latest computer gadget, or how to find the money to keep your ageing mother in safe and humane care, you are thinking about work that you want to have done that isn’t being done now.
Want to learn a language, travel abroad or get off the bus and into a car? These are all unfulfilled human desires and therefore sources of demand for work not now being performed.
Second, the obstacle to having this work performed is that we are not rich enough. The available resources are already occupied just producing what we currently consume. But mechanisation allows us to produce more with less and therefore to satisfy more human desires.
As the Adam Smith Institute’s Tim Worstall points out, when 95 percent of all people had to work the land so that everyone could eat, hardly any labour was available for other purposes. Mechanisation of agriculture in the UK helped to create a society in which ten percent of the population can work for the National Health Service.
In the US, technologically-unjustified employment fell in old industries like rail, steel and autos so that hundreds of thousands of people could be employed at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, not to mention the million start-ups from which these giants grew.
Third, understanding that all work is created by human need and desire means that the distinction between goods and services is meaningless. The idea that “great” societies make “things” (cars, air conditioners, steel) and services are somehow an inferior second cousin done by people who can’t get a real job is nonsensical.
The need for intangibles like mental stimulation or culture or art or entertainment or accountancy is no different in principle than the need for tangible things.
But because we must satisfy our physical needs first, only wealthy societies with high degrees of labour-freeing mechanisation can afford a vast creative class of chefs, musicians, painters, gamers, videographers, graphic designers, hackers, bloggers, yoga teachers and service entrepreneurs of every description.
That’s why open societies that welcome dynamic creative change are better for people, especially if the growth change generates is used in part to help everyone make the transition from the old to the new. Here is where we are not yet getting it right.
The final reason work will not disappear is one of the most basic cravings of people: to relate to one another. Outside family, love and friendship work is probably the most important way we do this. We see the value in what we do reflected back at us by the value other people attach to it.
That is why being unemployed is so soul-destroying, whereas when we work we feel valued. And no amount of social welfare can hide that fact, however justified and invaluable it may be in helping us get training or tiding us over temporary bouts of unemployment.
As chansonnier Felix Leclerc put it, the best way to kill a man is to pay him to do nothing.
Work is an indispensable part of a life worth living, and the market test (are people willing to pay me enough voluntarily for what I do that I can live in dignity) isn’t social Darwinism.
It is how we signal to each other how to make the most economically-valued contribution to the well-being of others. No machine can or will change that.
Brian Lee Crowley (twitter.com/brianleecrowley) is the Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in Ottawa: www.macdonaldlaurier.ca.
http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/why-will-we-never-run-out-of-work-brian-lee-crowley-in-the-globe-and-mail/
Jan. 11, 2017 "There will always be work- it's part of the human condition": Today I found this article by Brian Lee Crowley in the Globe and Mail:
Can we run out of work?
Donald Trump’s supporters fear so. For them the Rust Belt is the future unless things change. Many futurists also see the end of work due to mechanisation, and argue for giving people a basic income because if work is unavailable we need to give them the means to survive.
I can see their point. Employment in manufacturing throughout the industrialised world has fallen dramatically over the past few decades. A stubbornly unemployable underclass, often made up of poorly-educated men, haunts our societies and our politics.
Some academics are arguing that almost half of all existing work is vulnerable to mechanisation, including much hitherto unassailably-human brainwork. In a few years we won’t even be driving anymore as machines gently shunt us away from tasks we have so far performed for ourselves.
This nightmare scenario of vast armies of purposeless human wraiths wandering the earth, despite its emotional resonance, however, is not borne out in the real world.
First, the idea that there is a fixed amount of work is quite wrong, making the fact machines do a growing amount of work irrelevant. Work is necessary to satisfy human wants and needs, and these are infinite.
Think about how much of the average person’s time is spent pondering what they would do if only they had the resources. Every time you picture the addition you want to put on the house, the pleasure you could get from the latest computer gadget, or how to find the money to keep your ageing mother in safe and humane care, you are thinking about work that you want to have done that isn’t being done now.
Want to learn a language, travel abroad or get off the bus and into a car? These are all unfulfilled human desires and therefore sources of demand for work not now being performed.
Second, the obstacle to having this work performed is that we are not rich enough. The available resources are already occupied just producing what we currently consume. But mechanisation allows us to produce more with less and therefore to satisfy more human desires.
As the Adam Smith Institute’s Tim Worstall points out, when 95 percent of all people had to work the land so that everyone could eat, hardly any labour was available for other purposes. Mechanisation of agriculture in the UK helped to create a society in which ten percent of the population can work for the National Health Service.
In the US, technologically-unjustified employment fell in old industries like rail, steel and autos so that hundreds of thousands of people could be employed at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, not to mention the million start-ups from which these giants grew.
Third, understanding that all work is created by human need and desire means that the distinction between goods and services is meaningless. The idea that “great” societies make “things” (cars, air conditioners, steel) and services are somehow an inferior second cousin done by people who can’t get a real job is nonsensical.
The need for intangibles like mental stimulation or culture or art or entertainment or accountancy is no different in principle than the need for tangible things.
But because we must satisfy our physical needs first, only wealthy societies with high degrees of labour-freeing mechanisation can afford a vast creative class of chefs, musicians, painters, gamers, videographers, graphic designers, hackers, bloggers, yoga teachers and service entrepreneurs of every description.
That’s why open societies that welcome dynamic creative change are better for people, especially if the growth change generates is used in part to help everyone make the transition from the old to the new. Here is where we are not yet getting it right.
The final reason work will not disappear is one of the most basic cravings of people: to relate to one another. Outside family, love and friendship work is probably the most important way we do this. We see the value in what we do reflected back at us by the value other people attach to it.
That is why being unemployed is so soul-destroying, whereas when we work we feel valued. And no amount of social welfare can hide that fact, however justified and invaluable it may be in helping us get training or tiding us over temporary bouts of unemployment.
As chansonnier Felix Leclerc put it, the best way to kill a man is to pay him to do nothing.
Work is an indispensable part of a life worth living, and the market test (are people willing to pay me enough voluntarily for what I do that I can live in dignity) isn’t social Darwinism.
It is how we signal to each other how to make the most economically-valued contribution to the well-being of others. No machine can or will change that.
Brian Lee Crowley (twitter.com/brianleecrowley) is the Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in Ottawa: www.macdonaldlaurier.ca.
http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/why-will-we-never-run-out-of-work-brian-lee-crowley-in-the-globe-and-mail/
My week:
Sept. 13, 2019 Family Potluck night: I went to this at the Centre of Spiritual Living. I ate a small dinner with my family prior to it.
We played train dominos where we put all the dominos and connect the numbers of the dots on the dominoes together. This woman Sue said she plays this a lot. Lorraine brought the game. I never played with dominoes before.
We played 2 rounds. After the first round, I did ask Ma this:
Tracy: Did you mix these around?
Ma: Yeah, I did Mah Jong style.
lol.
Ma: I don't know how to play it.
Ma is an Asian man. My dad and grandma knows how to play Mah Jong.
After that we played Domination:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16620/domination
Sept. 15, 2019 "Why Forever 21 will probably go bankrupt and disappear": It mentions the whole online shopping:
For starters, Forever 21 has become increasingly irrelevant in malls throughout the country. Whereas mall apparel rivals such as Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) has invested in product quality to entice shoppers, Forever 21 has stayed true to its cheaply made, cheaply priced merchandise roots. Whereas Zara has upped its fashion game (and its prices), Forever 21 hasn’t kept pace according to experts Yahoo Finance has chatted up.
https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/why-forever-21-will-probably-go-bankrupt-and-disappear-165236255.html
We played train dominos where we put all the dominos and connect the numbers of the dots on the dominoes together. This woman Sue said she plays this a lot. Lorraine brought the game. I never played with dominoes before.
We played 2 rounds. After the first round, I did ask Ma this:
Tracy: Did you mix these around?
Ma: Yeah, I did Mah Jong style.
lol.
Ma: I don't know how to play it.
Ma is an Asian man. My dad and grandma knows how to play Mah Jong.
After that we played Domination:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16620/domination
Sept. 15, 2019 "Why Forever 21 will probably go bankrupt and disappear": It mentions the whole online shopping:
For starters, Forever 21 has become increasingly irrelevant in malls throughout the country. Whereas mall apparel rivals such as Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) has invested in product quality to entice shoppers, Forever 21 has stayed true to its cheaply made, cheaply priced merchandise roots. Whereas Zara has upped its fashion game (and its prices), Forever 21 hasn’t kept pace according to experts Yahoo Finance has chatted up.
https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/why-forever-21-will-probably-go-bankrupt-and-disappear-165236255.html
"Four teens trusted their instinct when this girl said she was with her ‘Dad’": Here is the Coles Notes version. 4 teen boys are skateboarding and they see a teen girl screaming and drunk with her dad. They decide to follow them and then the dad sexually assaults her and runs off when the 4 boys come at them. 1 stays with the girl and the 3 other guys chase and fight the guy.
The police come and arrest the guy. Later the police did call the 4 boys about it and they thought the police were going to yell at them for fighting the guy. Instead they wanted to thank them for the help.
When you notice someone in trouble, you have three options: walk on by, pretending you never saw it; run for help; or step in. Many like to believe we wouldn’t pick the first option, but in reality, who knows what we’d do if we were actually faced with a dangerous situation? However, for these four Canadian teenagers, turning a blind eye was never an option. The group of friends went above and beyond when they had a worrying gut instinct.
Four boys were having an ordinary night in April 2015. Carsyn Wright, Arnaud Nimenya, Starlyn Rivas-Perez, and James Hielema were in the underground parking lot of the Chinook Centre Mall in Calgary, Alberta.
The teenagers just couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something more to it. They had a gut instinct they couldn’t ignore, so decided that it was probably best for them to return to the parking lot and check up on the vulnerable young girl. They wouldn’t have forgiven themselves if they hadn’t.
They were then invited to the Calgary Police Chief’s Awards Gala as a mark of appreciation and gratification to the boys. They were praised for being incredibly brave, and Carsyn Wright said that he hoped anyone else faced with the same situation would have done the same.
My opinion: Call for help. I did that at 4 different cases that happened in broad daylight.
Save the Children: I was getting these phone calls from out of Alberta. They called 3 times. I looked it up and there is no info. I decided to pick it up and it was this charity. I had signed on the Change.org petition. I asked them to put me on the do-not-call list.
https://www.savethechildren.ca/
Sept. 16, 2019 Telus: Yesterday the TV and internet wasn't working. Today the Telus techie came to fix it. The good thing is that none of the recordings got deleted.
The Murders: I watched the whole 1st season (8 episodes) of this TV show on Telus on Demand. It was mediocre, but the stories were interesting.
Chesapeake Shores: I watched the whole 2nd season (10 episodes) of this TV show on Telus on Demand. It was average, but the stories were boring.
Second Jen: I then saw ep 2 "Jenny has the Gay" of this Canadian sitcom about 2 young Asian women. It was on Telus on Demand. I saw the pilot when it first came out in fall 2016. I wrote about the pilot saying it was good and then I never watched it again.
However, after I saw ep 2, I didn't really like it. After I saw the ep, I was kind of in a bad mood. I don't usually watch sitcoms. This is the last week before all the new fall TV shows come out so that's why I'm watching some things I don't usually watch to fill the time.
I wrote about the pilot here:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2017/12/madtv-reboot-deck-halls-tv-movie.html
Sept. 18, 2019 "Sandy Hook's Promise's Shocking 'Back to School' Ad is hard to watch": I read the description of the ad, and it was sad to read:
https://www.savethechildren.ca/
Sept. 16, 2019 Telus: Yesterday the TV and internet wasn't working. Today the Telus techie came to fix it. The good thing is that none of the recordings got deleted.
The Murders: I watched the whole 1st season (8 episodes) of this TV show on Telus on Demand. It was mediocre, but the stories were interesting.
Chesapeake Shores: I watched the whole 2nd season (10 episodes) of this TV show on Telus on Demand. It was average, but the stories were boring.
Second Jen: I then saw ep 2 "Jenny has the Gay" of this Canadian sitcom about 2 young Asian women. It was on Telus on Demand. I saw the pilot when it first came out in fall 2016. I wrote about the pilot saying it was good and then I never watched it again.
However, after I saw ep 2, I didn't really like it. After I saw the ep, I was kind of in a bad mood. I don't usually watch sitcoms. This is the last week before all the new fall TV shows come out so that's why I'm watching some things I don't usually watch to fill the time.
I wrote about the pilot here:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2017/12/madtv-reboot-deck-halls-tv-movie.html
Sept. 18, 2019 "Sandy Hook's Promise's Shocking 'Back to School' Ad is hard to watch": I read the description of the ad, and it was sad to read:
A chilling new ad spot by Sandy Hook Promise depicts kids showing off their new “back to school” gear while a mass shooting suddenly erupts around them and—be warned—it’s a tough watch.
It’s the latest public service announcement from the group that was set up to help protect children from gun violence in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, 2012. The Connecticut massacre claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six adult staff members.
The video, titled “Back to School Essentials,” shows the kids using their new colored pencils, scissors, and socks to help them as they try to survive a school shooting that’s going on around them. It’s part of Sandy Hook Promise’s “Know the Signs” campaign that aims to warn students, teachers, and parents about the signs that someone is planning a shooting.
One student running from a shooter says: “These new sneakers are just what I needed for the new year.” Another wraps her long socks around a bleeding classmate’s leg that has been wounded by a bullet, and says: “These new socks? They can be a real lifesaver.” A third student uses his new skateboard to smash a window in a desperate attempt to escape the shooter.
The terrifying end of the video comes with a girl weeping in a bathroom stall and texting her mom that she loves her before the door creaks opens followed by the sound of approaching footsteps. “I finally got my own phone to stay in touch with my mom,” the student says.
The video, which debuted on Today this morning, concludes with the message: “It’s back to school time and you know what that means. School shootings are preventable when you know the signs.”
It’s the latest in a string of powerful PSAs from the group. Last year, it released a video from the point of view of a school shooter as everyone around him ignores the warning signs of what he’s planning. Another mimicked a local news broadcast about a shooting that’s due to happen the next day with the tagline: “You can stop tomorrow’s shooting.”
As part of its “Know the Signs” campaign, Sandy Hook Promise has published a long list of warning signs to look out for that could give an indication that someone is planning a mass shooting.
The group gives the chilling statistic that, every day, eight children die from gun violence in the U.S. and 32 more are shot and injured.
All of You: Hosted by Joyce van der Lely: I signed up to listen to this online event series:
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growth and connecting with the divine. When Kate's not teaching or writing about
Tarot, she enjoys painting while listening to true crime podcasts, reading smutty
paranormal romance novels in her hammock and fostering feral kittens!
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Overcoming Insecurity and Low Self-Esteem: This is hosted by Ande Anderson:
https://www.avaiya.com/be-confident/gudni/
Sept. 19, 2019 Death Café meetup: Last night I finally went to one of these. I first heard about it in the Meetup emails, and I was kind of put off by that. Then I read a positive article in the Star Metro. I decided to go to it because:
1. I was curious.
2. It's free. It's at a restaurant and you can buy something to eat or drink.
3. I can go there for an hr, not like it and leave. I can go there once and never do it again. It's like watching a TV show pilot where I watch it once and never watch it again.
4. There was no TV to watch. Or at least what I like. Next week all my favorite shows and new pilots are coming out.
5. It wasn't raining or snowing.
My opinion: It was positive. It was actually kind of fun because we go into religion, philosophy, and psychology. We did talk about our will. We also talked about being cryogenically frozen like Fry on Futurama. If you go into the future, things will be different and you don't know what will have changed.
We also talk about medically assisted suicide and I mentioned Mary Kills People. I would be open to going there again.
https://www.meetup.com/Death-Cafe-Edmonton/events/263949138/
I'm free from Sept. 23-28, 2019: I'm working at my 2nd restaurant job and they are closed for maintenance. I emailed and called a few places to see if I can work there for a week, but no one did.
I called the Greek Fast Food place where I worked for a day, but they decided not to hire me because the manager was going to be away for 3 months so he couldn't train me, and no one else could.
Sept. 20, 2019: After the Death Café, this guy P emailed me on Meetup saying he saw my profile pic on the Screenwriters Meetup. We talked a bit about my script and blog, and the Screenwriters Facebook Group (it moved there.)
Screenwriters Facebook Group: Last night I read the script by J. I made comments and emailed it to him on Facebook.
Justin Trudeau's brown face: Trudeau has apologized for this 2001 photo. He sounds sincere and I accept his apology. What if he did something about my race? As long as he apologizes and means it, I will accept it.
I called my friend and she has tan skin and in her early 30s. She thought this was "hilarious" and she didn't vote in the federal 2015 election or the AB provincial 2019 election.
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/should-canadians-forgive-justin-trudeau-for-brownface-blackface-142511582.html
Eastern Arts store closing in Millwoods Town Centre:
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-activities-groups/edmonton/store-closing-sale/1460739074?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
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