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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 153121" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>Gone are the days when a job offer from Knots Landing Motors was viewed as a great opportunity, a chance to earn enough money to support a wife and live in upper middle-class happiness.&nbsp; When Sid offered Gary that job (with no experience), it was central to the fabric of the show&#039;s relationships.&nbsp; Now, the job offer to Harold (whose resume was much more checkered) is looked at by Abby as a step above fast food, a sort of &quot;well, at least he has a job&quot; kind of job that reflects a lack of ambition and/or skills to do better.&nbsp; The characters have definitely moved up, economically, and moved on from small-scale businesses--even looking down on them (even if the disdain was not directly spoken by the characters).&nbsp; By contrast, in the later seasons Paige got an account executive job at a billion-dollar conglomerate without a day of college or relevant work experience.&nbsp; The writers obviously set Harold up for failure for the sake of storyline, but doing it via a job that had been looked at as &quot;perfectly fine&quot; in the early seasons is a comment on the raised standards of what job is considered &quot;perfectly fine&quot; by the 1990s.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 153121, member: 27"] Gone are the days when a job offer from Knots Landing Motors was viewed as a great opportunity, a chance to earn enough money to support a wife and live in upper middle-class happiness. When Sid offered Gary that job (with no experience), it was central to the fabric of the show's relationships. Now, the job offer to Harold (whose resume was much more checkered) is looked at by Abby as a step above fast food, a sort of "well, at least he has a job" kind of job that reflects a lack of ambition and/or skills to do better. The characters have definitely moved up, economically, and moved on from small-scale businesses--even looking down on them (even if the disdain was not directly spoken by the characters). By contrast, in the later seasons Paige got an account executive job at a billion-dollar conglomerate without a day of college or relevant work experience. The writers obviously set Harold up for failure for the sake of storyline, but doing it via a job that had been looked at as "perfectly fine" in the early seasons is a comment on the raised standards of what job is considered "perfectly fine" by the 1990s. [/QUOTE]

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