Sometimes no job is as good as a job.
I just got out of rabbinical school with a specialization in teaching. I have a master's degree and a bachelor's, plus years of experience teaching, working in nonprofits, and doing other things. Right now, there are no jobs in Jewish Education in the Los Angeles metro area, due to the economy, and a glut on Jewish educators in the locale. I could've taken a full-time job as a midlevel coordinator at a nonprofit this next year, for around $35K, but instead I chose to teach part time for around $18K, get partial unemployment, and spend my remaining time writing a book.
That just seems like a better investment of my time and resources than busting my ass at a nonprofit grind job that any half-competent 25 year old could do, for a salary that's a third of what most qualified rabbis make.
On the other hand, when I was fresh out of college, and trying to make it as an actor, I never turned down a job. I waited tables, I delivered pizza, I couriered, I loaded boxes, I worked in shops and bookstores...you name the low-paying crap job, and I probably did it. There is a time and place for everything. Sometimes any job is better than no job. Sometimes the reverse is true.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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