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CNN Story Asks If Part Time Work Is The New American Job

Yes, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent, and a big reason is that more than half the jobs added were part time.

Michelle Asci dreamed of capturing life through her camera lens. Asci had her sights set on being a photographer as she graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree from Georgia State University in December.

But the 23-year-old is not working as a photographer. She’s at a concession stand, selling popcorn or ushering people into their respective theaters before the midnight screening. Asci’s been working part-time at the same Atlanta movie theater since 2005.

“It’s going on to be eight years of this,” she said. But working part-time at a movie theater was not what she saw herself doing with her degree, and she is not alone.

Sad. 

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