In response to my column, Diane Reynolds, a career coach in New York, said she encourages her clients to counteract these conditions by doing volunteer work: Strong feelings of rejection and loss of self-esteem, coupled with the many nonresponses from potential employers can also lead to a "why bother looking" attitude.
Which leads to not bothering to even vote, since elections are largely foreordained outcomes in which your party loses.
Never send the signal that muddles up their notion that "being honest will lead to punishment, so why bother?" In today's world of cutthroat competition, being truthful might not always be practical.
This will lead to them not even bothering to listen to you and you might even cause them to become angry with you.
That kind of dramatic conclusion can either lead to you rebelling and not bothering to do anything at all, or worrying too much that your balanced, healthy diet is not good for you.
Inevitably, this will lead to some commentary wondering why bondholders even bother to buy debt from high-risk countries like Belize.
Violating Iran's sovereignty like that would surely lead to a larger armed conflict, and then there's no point bothering with the Ahmadinejad show trial.
So in prison, fewer inmates bothered with rehabilitation programs because they couldn't lead to earlier release.
Getting back to economics: It bothers Wilson that economists automatically conclude that in most cases higher prices lead to lower demand.
"This led to people not bothering with treatment, withdrawing from society and the economy.
"No, I don't know exactly where my husband is" leads to "Yes, it bothers me that I don't know when I'll hear from him again," which of course paves the way for "I don't know how I do it all either, but I don't have any other option".
