Do you think people who have never worked for someone else full time have any idea what it is really like?

I ask this because of the comments Hillary Rosen made about Romney’s wife. I have pretty much said on other Q’s that people, usually women, who have never had to work full time basically have no idea what it is like to have to get yourself up and to work every day, especially when you hate your job. What it is like to have an employer require you to do things, stay late, overload you with work, and you can’t quit because you have to support yourself and your family.

This does not mean these people don’t “work.” If they are raising children, certainly that is a demanding job. Even if they don’t have children they may be busy doing charity work or other things.

I have had a career, I have worked part time, and currently I don’t have a job, but I am the social chairperson for a club we belong to. There is no comparison to working full time with all the other things I have done. Working for an employer is incredibly demanding, especially if the job is a physically demanding job. I don’t think office workers have any idea of the physical exhaustian of those who stand on their feet all day and have to lift, and I don’t think people who have never worked full time have any idea what that obligation is really like psychologically.

I am not excluding people who work for themselves, most businesses require an incredible amount of committment and time, often it is much more than a 40 hour week.

This is not a Q about what Hillary Rosen said, or about politics. It is just your opinion about people who have not had to work ever outside the home full time, and if domestic responsibilities really give someone a clear idea of what it is like to hold down a job and worry about financially responsiblities. It also is not a Q to pass judgement on those who choose not to work outside the home.