There are many more stories of people hoping to enter the UK temporarily being turned down on the suspicion, stated implicitly if not explicitly, that they are happy to abandon jobs and life in order to grab some of our abundant riches.
My wife and I were visiting the country and had heard about the effort to transform the mountain into an unlikely tourist attraction since a 2010 eruption killed more than 300 villagers and forced over 100,000 to evacuate their homes and farms, and to abandon jobs in sand mining.
Given South Africa's history, abandoning job-preferment will not be an option for many years.
About 8,000 physicians have abandoned jobs at government health centers over the past five years, most having sought refuge abroad.
Many of the miners are professionals, such as teachers and civil servants, who have abandoned jobs that do not pay enough to feed their families.
They are the soul searchers, the gypsies who leave trails of abandoned jobs in their wakes as they seek their culinary voices and search out owners who will nurture their creative powers (i.e. leave them alone).
Look on the Web, read what insomniacs say on Sleepnet.com and Talkaboutsleep.com, and you'll find stories of lives wrecked by this affliction, marriages ruined, educations abandoned, jobs lost, careers destroyed.
Of course, people at risk for depression should hesitate to abandon a job in a cold-winter location for no job in a warm-winter clime, and they should think twice about moving away from family and friends.
He decided to abandon his job at a dry-cleaning business in Casablanca only after watching the group's emotionally charged videos.
Eventually Mr. Bianchi would abandon his job as a lawyer to take up art and to produce a series of books of soft-core homoerotica.
