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Get a Life!



"You get a comfortable salary, full health benefits, free day care and spa privileges, 31 days annual paid vacation. You have no duties and responsibilities -- you don't even have to come to work." Would you want this job?

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Reader Comments
Posted: Oct 11, 2004
How beautiful! I am sending this to my daughter.
Posted By Anonymous, Brooklyn, NY

Posted: Oct 12, 2004
This is great
What a good, informative article! I am Roman Catholic -- learning more and more about the Jewish faith! This article is so well written and the point is very poignant. We do indeed get a free ride when we are young....would that other cultures around the world had such a rite of passage for their young! With the exception of Bar/Bat Mitzvah and the Hispanic celebration of quinceaera (when a Hispanic female has her coming out party when she turns 15), no other culture in the US or the Western world has a rite of passage to mark the end of childhood. So sad, too....psychologically, our young need such lines of demarcation!
Posted By Cynthia , Leominster, MA

Posted: Oct 13, 2004
To Leah, mainly
This is a great article. I love the entirety, but in particular the conversation part. What an interesting way to talk of pre-bat (or bar) mitzvah times and then of the time when "the party is over."

I don't know if this article was written at this time or in the past. But there is that picture of a very clean-cut and lovely young girl - and no copyright. So -- Mazel Tov, Leah!!! I wish you all good things, especially a lifelong and very close relationship with the Boss, the one with the capital B.
Posted By Helga Hudspeth

Posted: Oct 14, 2004
Leah
Knowledge alters what we seek
As well as what we find
(Freda Adler)

Mazel Tov, Leah!

PS. Good article. Well written and interesting.
Posted By rrh

Posted: Oct 15, 2004
GET A LIFE
The article Get a Life was one of the best articles I have read in a long time.

Thank you,
Posted By PENNY WEEKS, GIBRALTAR, EUROPE
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