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Cumberland Island

Working and Living

3/31/2017

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By Sam Burnham
​@C_SamBurnham

“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labours of men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference among the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbors, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of the blood.” -George Eliot
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An Old Georgia Farmhouse Originally Constructed in Inaha, Turner County
This is a question. I know where I stand on this question. My mind is made upon it. It is a question for readers to contemplate. It is sort of a follow-up on the last two posts. The question is do you want to base where you live on where you work or base where you work on where you live?
In this world today it is a much more complicated question than it was 100 years ago. Work is not always available in a particular place.To be honest,that isn't a new problem. People have relocated looking for a better life for centuries. But more recently we have come into the phenomenon of transfers and promotions leading people to move across the country for a job. And with it comes the challenge of building a home in the new place. That leaves us with the question of exactly what home is. And that is the question each of us must answer for ourselves

After seeing a section of I-85 in Atlanta collapse into a blazing inferno separating thousands of commuters from their homes and sending drivers scurrying for alternate routes, this question is one worth asking. Commuting is but one of many issues we must sift through to reach the decision to this question. Sending kids to school, social lives, friends and family, and the stage of life we find ourselves in at the time, allow these help factor into that decision.

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John Ballard link
4/2/2017 07:26:04 pm

This is a no-brainer. Like it or not, except for a handful of people born into a family business (or become a trust-fund baby), we live in a time when you go where the work is available.
Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" ('70's) said that the day of having a single career during one's working lifetime was past. His advice even then was to plan for a "work trajectory" of a series of occupations over a working lifetime. The number he predicted was about seven, though that was an average. Some people could expect to have fewer while others could expect even more.

I personally love the romantic notion of staying put. I was born in central Kentucky and most of my cousins still live within fifty miles of where they were born. But even most of them have changed jobs two or three times during their working years. In my case the food business was my main career but even in that line of work I was employed in four different environments as working conditions and business models changed around me.

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