Via a link to a link to a link (beginning at In the Shadow of Mt Hollywood and contuing via this article in The Atlantic on “The Organization Kid,” I eventually got to this essay from 1991: The Other Crisis in American Education – 91.11 They were interesting articles, and I was pondering my own educational experiences (which could best be described as “unmotivated boredom”) while reading them. I had been looking for a descriptive term for the kinds of over-scheduled kids that have become legion in middle-class American life; as a childfree adult I had looked on aghast at…
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Ugh, I hate Tuesdays. On Tuesdays, I wear my International Hat in addition to my Help Desk Hat and my Group Hotels Hat and all the other little hats stacked on top of my noggin. So I take calls from travelers who will be flying outside of the US, and they’re a fussy, demanding lot. The regular international agent is always off on Tuesdays – she works a 4 x 10 week (4 hours a week, 10 hours a day). Some of the work is interesting – fares, routes, and so on. Much of the work is tedious – there’s…