It's been 6 months and 10 days since I was hired at Workplace, and I am once again shocked by the "other side" of the economic pyramid, though maybe not as shocked as I could be. After all, I've been at this non-profit gig for a while, and have developed a bit of a buffer between me and the depression that looms overhead, brought on by the realization that many of the people whose accounts I see every day could easily pay my salary plus some with what they give to charity in a quarter.
I am considering putting myself out there as a charity - just to see if anyone will fund my charity for a while. I really only need three times my annual salary to pull myself out of the hole. Is that really too much to ask? But I suppose I would have to show something in return for the help, and right now I do well to put a five in the basket every week. I never even won an award at a talent show, so really I don't know what I would tell people that they could expect in return for their investment.
Donations today totaled in the hundreds of thousands. Today. Of course, today is not an average day, but the fact that it's possible makes me think longingly of the bottle of cheap wine that sits in my pantry.
All I need to do is win the lottery.
OK, first step is to scrape up the money for a lottery ticket. Then win the lottery.
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