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[Monsieur Blond]

I think that's a fantastic idea, it will create upward pressure on wages as the workforce shrinks. Plus, I really hate generation Y.

That's a shit concept.

[Gin Bunny]

I am working on some pieces for an exhibition in October! Yay me!

[Nick 2]

That's a shit concept.

Why? Upward pressure on wages = more money for less work = me getting out of office work sooner = awesome

[Gin Bunny]

= me getting out of office work sooner = awesome

Oh you want to be a tradesperson?

[Nick 2]

What I want is an interesting job (ie not office work) that pays me enough money to maintain my lifestyle. Quite frankly I don't think such work exists but I live in hope of finding it one day.

[Monsieur Blond]

Why? Upward pressure on wages = more money for less work = me getting out of office work sooner = awesome

Because then half the work force is gone. Wages may increase but things will become less efficient. Plus women have worked hard to get to this stage so why give that all up just to let their husbands get better wages? What about single women? It just seems counter intuitive.

Sometimes I think I'd love to just stay at home. Not cooking and looking after kids, but just lounging about and doing nothing. But then I think I'd get sick of that. Perhaps.

[Nick 2]

You would. Doing nothing is the worst part of unemployment. It can be very demoralising.

[Monsieur Blond]

I like doing nothing. I have done nothing all day today. Except for dragging myself out of the house to purchase The Sound of Music.

[Nick 2]

Going by your posts you're half way to depressed already. A couple of months of nothing might finish the job.

[Monsieur Blond]

Been there done that! Sometimes doing nothing makes me sad...but I am currently learning to embrace it.
Also have uni exams next week so I'm allowed a little bit of nothing.

[Nick 2]

Stop wasting time at uni and get in the kitchen, my wages are too low.

[Gin Bunny]

Because then half the work force is gone. Wages may increase but things will become less efficient. Plus women have worked hard to get to this stage so why give that all up just to let their husbands get better wages? What about single women? It just seems counter intuitive.

Sometimes I think I'd love to just stay at home. Not cooking and looking after kids, but just lounging about and doing nothing. But then I think I'd get sick of that. Perhaps.

But you're not really doing nothing, you're at Uni.

And I agree, a woman shouldn't rely on a man to live.

[Mez]

Sometimes I think I'd love to just stay at home. Not cooking and looking after kids, but just lounging about and doing nothing. But then I think I'd get sick of that. Perhaps.

You might be surprised.  I don't go out to work - work comes to me, and not nearly often enough!  So I read.  All day.  Every day.

Fuck doing housework - you make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again [/Joan Rivers].

And fuck cooking too.  I burn myself; I burn the food.  I forget what I'm doing and wander away, sometimes not remembering there's something on the stove till the smoke alarm goes off.   

Apart from reading and proof reading, the only skill I have seems to be doing the laundry.  Oh well, at least the children are clean, if not ironed (I don't iron).

I DO remember being pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen, but that was only because we had ducted heating and my feet weren't cold.   

[Nick 2]

You don't iron? How do you live?

[Mez]

As I said, I'm good at laundry.  I fold everything when it's still wet, so at least it's the right shape.  Then it goes onto the line or clothes horse, often still partly folded, and I re-fold it properly when it's dry.

Of course it's a lot easier on days like today, when most of the stuff goes into the dryer because it's pissing down with rain.  When you take it out of the dryer it's still warm, so if you fold it straight away it doesn't need ironing.

Yes, I know there's a lot of folding involved, but when you've been a mother for a few years, it's just second nature to fold stuff. 

When you've been a mother for several years, Nick, you will be a folder too.  Not a scruncher.