What boggles the mind is why someone with your skills doesn't get a better job.
Umm, d00d? Have you checked the state of the economy lately?
Dean already shared his perspective; let me add something from mine. I'm a semi-retired editor with 20+ years of solid work experience, including management; plus side trips into sales, marketing, lobbying -- you name it. I've been successful at everything I've turned my hands to ... all A1, top-notch references; even won a few awards for my work back in the day.
I interviewed with a good-sized (50,000 circ daily) paper last year for a part-time job doing some editing and pagination ... they wanted to pay me $11 an hour. I made more than that 10 years ago!
If I could find a meaningful part-time job paying respectable wages in this (Rust Belt) market, I'd be overjoyed ... but in the meantime, making $14.50 an hour without breaking a sweat, with some nice bennies thrown in for good measure, doesn't seem like such a bad deal!
