As Barbara Ehrenreich continues her journey in the second chunk as Barbara Alexander in the novel of Bait and Switched, she discovers that trying to get a job as a blue-collared person to pass to the white-collared level isn't as easy as it seems. Alexander hoped to find her perfect job in the first couple of weeks, but hope soon began to fade away once four months have passed. The four months have come and gone and she still hasn't been able to find her perfect job, and much less begin to work. In the first chunck she went to career coaches, online help, phone help and any other help she could reach and find to help her find her dream job as quickly as possible. Sadly all her help and time was soon draining her hope at finding her perfect job any time soon. She spent thousands of dollars with all of her helpe like: career coaches, hotline numbers, boot camps, counselors and anything else she encoutnered that she believed would help her accomplish her goal. Though now she began to worry if she will ever reach her dream job, but she never really lost hope. Hence she begins to realize just how hard it is for the people trying to live and the people living in the whtie-colloared economic stability of society really is, and that it's no wonder why people started to lower from the social status so drastically into the blue-collared level of society.
Tone:
Worried, Strong-minded.
Rhetorical Strategies:
1.) Metaphor-"Winter-Spring Plan of Attack" (Page 95).
2.) Irony-"And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." (Page 143).
Application Question:
Does having career coaches, boot camps, or all of this other extra help that Alexander went through really help one find their true perfect job, or is it better to work with less help and do it by oneself?
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I believe that one can find a job without all the bogus career coaches, boot camps, and books. How did the person find their first job; with help from their college experience and networking. They should be able to draw on their experience to help them find a job. If they don't have these experiences they have family who has gotten hired for a job. We both understand the tone shift and Barbara Alexander's thought process shift. She was optimistic and confident at the beginning of her journey and now she is not so much.
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