http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/us/01survival.html?scp=1&sq=janitor&st=cse
TEMPE, Ariz. — Mark Cooper started his work day on a recent morning cleaning the door handles of an office building with a rag, vigorously shaking out a rug at a back entrance and pushing a dust mop down a long hallway.
Nine months ago he lost his job as the security manager for the western United States for a Fortune 500 company, overseeing a budget of $1.2 million and earning about $70,000 a year. Now he is grateful for the $12 an hour he makes in what is known in unemployment circles as a “survival job” at a friend’s janitorial services company. But that does not make the work any easier.
“You’re fighting despair, discouragement, depression every day,” Mr. Cooper said.
Abnormally, our societies natural abilities aren't corresponding to our social functions. Many are finding different jobs that may earn less, and be lower on the social hierarchy than their previous jobs. Will our society change the social functions or the natural abilities of those who live here? I wonder if jobs will come back to those that were recently fired.
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