Comments on: Top ten jobs to have http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/04/16/top-ten-jobs-to-have/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: KLORPh http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/04/16/top-ten-jobs-to-have/#comment-106059 KLORPh Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:06:21 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/04/16/top-ten-jobs-to-have/#comment-106059 Pharmacist is #9???? Wow Im a pharmacist and I think it sort of sucks: long hours, lots of stress, little room for creativity, inflexible schedule, not much advancement, and working with the general public in a retail situation leaves A LOT to be desired... well I suppose if I could think of a better way to make more money I would (without going back to school)... #9.. unbelievable Pharmacist is #9???? Wow Im a pharmacist and I think it sort of sucks: long hours, lots of stress, little room for creativity, inflexible schedule, not much advancement, and working with the general public in a retail situation leaves A LOT to be desired… well I suppose if I could think of a better way to make more money I would (without going back to school)… #9.. unbelievable

]]> By: Pappy Jo http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/04/16/top-ten-jobs-to-have/#comment-75887 Pappy Jo Thu, 24 May 2007 13:59:16 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/04/16/top-ten-jobs-to-have/#comment-75887 Why is a therapist necessarily a 'she'? <strong>* * * * * *</strong> <I> A therapist, of course, is not necessarily a she. Because we all know this, I don't think it matters what gender I use. In a perfect world, English would not demand that each singular pronoun have a gender. But it's the nature of the language, and at this point in the development of English, substituting a non-gendered, plural pronoun when the sentence does not call for one actually serves to deperaonlize the writing, I think. So, it's a stylistic choice thoroughout the whole blog. --Penelope</I> Why is a therapist necessarily a 'she'?

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A therapist, of course, is not necessarily a she. Because we all know this, I don't think it matters what gender I use. In a perfect world, English would not demand that each singular pronoun have a gender. But it's the nature of the language, and at this point in the development of English, substituting a non-gendered, plural pronoun when the sentence does not call for one actually serves to deperaonlize the writing, I think. So, it's a stylistic choice thoroughout the whole blog.

–Penelope

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