i will never ever wanna be a maid.. not even if i'm hard pressed for money.. i think its a real sad occupation.. my new maid came today.. i heard the agent hand my mum her 'portfolio' and stuff.. told her to behave properly.. basically.. its like selling human.. i just hate that notion.. to me.. a job should not be like this.. it should be one where.. there's.. i dunno.. i just have this idea of like.. the employer and employee sitting down and negotiating and stuff.. not like this human transaction.. its just a legal form of.. "prostitution" just that the person in transaction now is not for people's sexual pleasure (but again, that's hard to say) when u r a maid.. u basically surrender your rights to your employer.. if your emplyoer is nice (like us of cos!), good for you, if not, you're in for hell.. sigh.. you've gotta slog real hard.. all day all night long.. people get to go home at night and be be free to be themselves and complain and rest and rejuvenate.. but they don't.. you're being employed all the time.. its a tiring job.. you can't take leave when ur sick, you dun have annual leave.. your pay is pathetically meagre.. you carn wear nice clothes, u carn communicate with friends.. you are being doubted when things go wrong.. u eat leftovers.. you might get abused.. u r under the scrutiny of your employer all the time.. you lose your sense of self.. u have sold your life away.. you are now just a working robot.. :( all in all.. its a sad life when u r a maid.. i wish i had no maid.. i dun mind keeping the bed myself every morning.. :( sigh.. maid.. domestic helpers.. a nicer name.. but it doesn't make a difference to the sad life they have.. since the US has so much money.. why not give the money away and let everyone have a proper education? if only there was equal distribution of wealth all over the world.. if only the world was just one unified entity without the different distinctions.. then no one would be selfish over their national wealth and stuff.. this is a time when i wish the world would be a communist place.. :P wad a far fetched idea.. bleahz.. poor maids.. (statement only applies to obedient maids)