please tell me this is a fake letter to "Annie's Mailbox"

I've been unemployed three out of the last four years since leaving grad school, and currently have a part-time gig at UPS...It might be a sacrifice on my part, but I'd be willing to trade jobs straight-up with her sniveling ass(lol)...Maybe a long-hour, blue-collar, work on a holiday, no-benefits/overtime/union, job could teach her a little about what it means to work to survive...



Annie's Mailbox Well-paid, with little to do: She'd rather be elsewhere


DEAR ANNIE: I'm 26, an Ivy League college graduate, and recently married to a loving man. We live in a charming home in the suburbs.
The problem is what I do at work -- NOTHING. And for which I am extremely well paid, I might add. In five years, I have become so efficient at my job that my week's responsibilities take two hours. Mostly, I work at the illusion of being busy.
My boss tells me I'm her best employee. But I feel trapped while thinking of all the things I could be doing with my time, like housework, driving my mother to the doctor, etc. My hours outside work are so demanding, I don't have time for anything mentally stimulating.
Lately, I have been crying in my car during commutes, and plagued by old battles with anorexia and drug use. My friends say I'm lucky to have such a "problem," yet every day I become more and more depressed at my utter pointlessness.
Another job like this is not an option. I've been looking around for two years. What should I do before I'm bored to death? -- Underworked and Overpaid

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/today/zzzadann.htm
(annie's answer at the link)

I'm pretty sure it is. I wonder whatever happened to her.

this is not my local paper; i was just looking for any paper that would have a link to today's annie's mailbox

GOD LORD!!!! SUCK IT UP!!!!!!

Sorry you're in that situation, but I do know plenty of well-paid people who nonetheless feel useless at their job and don't think they have a way out. I think "Underworked" is probably writing in to get reassurance she's not a bad person for feeling that way.

My job's good, the pay's good, I'm sick of it. I suppose I should just suck it up, though, because when others are worse off than I am, I'm not entitled to feel bad about anything.

i would say that if some lower level paid workers are fortunate for what they have, and how good they have it in this job market (i.e., not unemployed), then you would think there would be similar gratitude from a woman that all but admits she's stealing from the company for the work she puts in...Instead of going throught the 'poor rich me' routine, i suggest she quit, go on sabbatical, try to find herself, join the peace corps or something....If she truly is THAT unhappy, because there millions out there (including myself) that would kill for some no-work, easy-money job

and provide training to others so they can take the job that you so loathe.

(This was back in the days when Houston had two papers!) I often had lunch at the nearby Mexican restaurant that featured mediocre food & killer ritas. Two ritas & it didn't matter--no challenges would occur in the PM!

So I quit & found something else to do.

If you have that little to do, ask for some more fucking work! How dishonorable, to rip off your company in that way.