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That Homeless Guy Outside Starbucks? He Probably Has a Cellphone

By matt buchanan, 5:00 PM on Mon Mar 23 2009, 22,501 views

A really surprising story in the Washington Post today: 30-45 percent of D.C. homeless people have cellphones, and they're unexpectedly essential to their way of life.

The Post talks to several homeless people and advocates, but Chris, a recovering crack addict, probably has most the stereotype-busting story of all. He works various entry-level jobs and keeps his homelessness a secret from employers (for obvious reasons), but lost a job at a Verizon call center last year when his boss couldn't reliably get in touch with him. Now that he has a cellphone, employers can call him anytime they need an extra hand, and he's even been promoted at one of his jobs, despite being homeless.

Others use the phones to keep up with food stamps and various appointments or to take pictures—a million phones popped out when Michelle Obama worked at a soup kitchen, as pictured above. Many blog as well, with blogs hosted at Streats.tv. Really fascinating, it might change the way you look at the homeless: [Washington Post, Image: Martinez Monsivais/AP]

Work is sacred.

Work is giving yourself. It’s creative self-expression. It’s opening your heart and providing value to others. It’s exchanging a part of yourself with someone else. It’s a possibility for you to make a difference in the world.

Seeing work as just something to do to get by is like slapping yourself in the face.

Here’s why I just can’t slap myself anymore:

• I don’t want to spend one third of my life living out of a sense of drudgery.
• I don’t want to rent out my body and mind for five of seven days of the week.
• I don’t want to spend every day counting down the minutes to lunch, then counting again to five o’clock.
• But much, much, much more than that, I don’t want to confine myself to choosing work that isn’t meaningful and doesn’t matter to me.

And that’s really the biggest problem with seeing work as menial labor. By defining work as such, you incarcerate yourself in a narrow field of possibilities of what work could be. Yes, work can be tedious. Doing your taxes, filing receipts, stapling, responding to email, and doing repetitive tasks can be pretty damn boring. There’s no way to trick yourself into believing otherwise. (Non-resistance to the tedium, however, can make it a lot less painful.) But despite the tedium, work can be much more than that. The work you do can be the gift of what you leave behind on this earth when you’re gone. It can be the difference you make in other peoples lives.

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It's the junk food of conversation: quick, sugary, sickening in excess—and unavoidable. Thomas Farley, editor of etiquette guide Modern Manners, has these tips.

It's good article, i think

How much do you need? When you are at a conference you need only your laptop.