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- From: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.011417.19727@cs.ucla.edu>
- Originator: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu
- Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet)
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- Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
- Organization: in your face!
- References: <1992Nov12.235810.21085@rs6000.bham.ac.uk> <1992Nov15.204331.17994@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <1992Nov16.233917.29267@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:14:17 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov16.233917.29267@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.204331.17994@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
- >>Try wearing your "Cure" t-shirt to work some time with the
- >>worn-through-at-the-knees blue jeans and see how long you stay at your
- >>RealWorld job, assuming that they hire you in the first place.
- > Keep telling yourself that, monkey-boy, and maybe the noose
- >around your neck will rankle less. The monkey suits are the uniform
- >of the salesdroids and administrators; I think of it as their punishment
- >for leading a fundamentally useless existence :-).
-
- What about jobs like performing in a symphony orchestra, where
- everyone is expected to dress formally? Are they sellouts? Consider
- how difficult it is to get a job like that ...
-
- >>Wearing a tie dosen't necessarily make you a ... oh MY
- >>GOD!..."conformist"!
- > True. It makes you a Yuppie. The problem with Yups ain't that
- >they've sold out; sometimes that's necessary. The problem is that they
- >sold out too young, and usually too cheap. Keep your pottage.
-
- Some people I know who are professional musicians in orchestras, etc.
- are anything but yuppies (some are quite poor) and it's a serious
- hardship for them to buy the formal wear required for concerts.
- However, they buy it because it is important to them to be able to
- perform with the group (not to mention they get paid, usually not
- enough, unless it's a world-class group). I don't consider this
- selling out.
-
- Other examples of jobs requiring "uniform" dress: airline staff,
- hotel staff, restaurant staff (depends on quality of the restaurant),
- to name a few.
-
- --gregbo
-