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Three Jobs Everyone Needs to Have
My plan to level-up America.
If I became president, I’m pretty sure I could fix most of the problems in our country. Unfortunately, I know jack squat about tax code and foreign policy, so I’d probably never get elected.
Regardless, I’ll share my strategy with you. Maybe you know about the tax code and foreign policy and you can run for president. You can steal my plan and I won’t even expect any credit for it.
If I was president, I’d start a program requiring every person to commit one year of their lives to each of the following jobs:
Job 1: A job taking care of another person
When I was 17, I got a job working at a center for developmentally disabled adults. At the time, I didn’t even know what that meant, but now, years later, I’m grateful I had the opportunity to do it.
The clients who came into the center were very low functioning. They came to the center to practice daily living skills like feeding, cleaning, and dressing themselves. A few of them had families, but many were senior citizens who had been become wards of the state when their families had abandoned them as children.
Most of my day was spent helping the adults who came to the center with their ‘toileting needs.’ This included changing…
