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Originally Posted by mcarroll-royal
This type of employment means that Kate is allowed to do what she wants and more importantly when she wants - ie when William calls she is at his beck and call. It does not appear to me that it is a 9 to 5 job and certainly not a five day a week job.
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I guess my problem with this line of thinking is two-fold: first, we do not know the particulars of Kate's work schedule - she may be working the sort of hours you suggest, or she might be working longer hours a few days a week, or she might be working barely at all - we can't know (and I don't think we're entitled to know). All we have are assumptions based on that interview that Belle Robinson gave about a previous job (which may be quite different from this one) and on photographs of Kate out and about at certain times (which have included, in the past two or three months, exactly one photograph of her out during a typical person's work time).
Second, there's the assumption that a job that only requires you to be at the workplace for a few hours a week is not a "proper" job. For example, my work is divided between my job site and home, and so I have flexibility as to when I complete the work I'm assigned out of the office. My job isn't easy, and it's extremely fulfilling. I'd reject the idea that I don't work hard because my work doesn't all happen at the office. We don't know what Kate's doing or where it takes place, and I don't think it's right to dismiss her work because it may not fit into some people's idea of the "typical" job.
I just really think it's a weak argument that this job isn't the "right" job for Kate to have. She's a private citizen. She's working. We don't even know if the two of them will marry someday. She has the right to choose the job she prefers. I don't think her current employment should be treated as a sort of de facto audition for possible queen-ship one day.