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TVFactFan · 01-04-2014, 03:35 PM

When the evans needed money and JJ was looking for a job. So why the hell wasn't Florida looking for a job with him since she had no small kids at home and no more husband to support her?

Futhermore why was she not working period since all her children were school aged??? She could have atleast worked part-time to supplement James income but no she stayed home knowing the family needed the extra income and her husband was not making much????

WHY????????? LMAO

cleverfun3000 · 01-04-2014, 11:19 PM

As far as not working when she was married to James, more than likely he was way too macho to allow his wife to work. He would have looked at it as him being a failure as a providing husband. As far as her not working later in the series after James was no longer there, she had no marketable skills that would have gotten her a job that would have made any kind of a difference anyway. She would have searched years before anyone would hire her because of her age and her lack of skills.

TVFactFan · 01-05-2014, 02:21 AM

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As far as not working when she was married to James, more than likely he was way too macho to allow his wife to work. He would have looked at it as him being a failure as a providing husband. As far as her not working later in the series after James was no longer there, she had no marketable skills that would have gotten her a job that would have made any kind of a difference anyway. She would have searched years before anyone would hire her because of her age and her lack of skills.

She could have gotten the bus driver job in season 4 lol

Will Dockery · 01-05-2014, 04:04 AM

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She could have gotten the bus driver job in season 4 lol

Well... why didn't Florida try to get a job like the one she had working for Maude?!?

TVFactFan · 01-05-2014, 03:33 PM

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Well... why didn't Florida try to get a job like the one she had working for Maude?!?

Good point, another mystery

Janice · 01-05-2014, 04:38 PM

That's the way it was written in the script.

TVFactFan · 01-05-2014, 04:44 PM

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That's the way it was written in the script.

Janice we know that LOL

it's a discussion as in to why in regards to the Good Times reality

Brieannas21 · 01-05-2014, 11:57 PM

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When the evans needed money and JJ was looking for a job. So why the hell wasn't Florida looking for a job with him since she had no small kids at home and no more husband to support her?

Futhermore why was she not working period since all her children were school aged??? She could have atleast worked part-time to supplement James income but no she stayed home knowing the family needed the extra income and her husband was not making much????

WHY????????? LMAO

Did you even watch Good Times. In the second season Florida had a job.

TVFactFan · 01-06-2014, 12:04 AM

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Did you even watch Good Times. In the second season Florida had a job.

A job doing what?

Brieannas21 · 01-06-2014, 12:13 AM

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A job doing what?

Working at a department store I believe.

TVFactFan · 01-06-2014, 12:24 AM

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Working at a department store I believe.

Really?????????? A place that she worked for ONE DAY??

Good night brieannas

Brieannas21 · 01-06-2014, 12:36 AM

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Really?????????? A place that she worked for ONE DAY??

Good night brieannas

Apparently after she was fired in "Florida's Big Gig" she found another job because in "Florida Goes to School" Thelma tells James that Flo was at work. In Season 3 Florida was still working.

Now I will go to bed, because I do have to go to work in the morning.

TVFactFan · 01-06-2014, 12:43 AM

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Apparently after she was fired in "Florida's Big Gig" she found another job because in "Florida Goes to School" Thelma tells James that Flo was at work. In Season 3 Florida was still working.

Now I will go to bed, because I do have to go to work in the morning.

Well that's another mystery because it was never said what she was doing in season 3 lol

Brieannas21 · 01-06-2014, 08:11 AM

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Well that's another mystery because it was never said what she was doing in season 3 lol

The show did talk about her job is season 3, there was a whole episode about it called "Florida the Woman."

SitcomsOffline · 01-06-2014, 06:50 PM

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[B][SIZE="3"]As far as not working when she was married to James, more than likely he was way too macho to allow his wife to work. He would have looked at it as him being a failure as a providing husband.

Bingo. During the Good Times era, it was considered traditional for the man to bring home the bacon and for the wife to stay home and cook it, in a manner of speaking.

There was even an episode about this. They both applied for jobs at a Chicago department store and to meet EEOC/affirmative action requirements, they chose Florida for the position over James.

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As far as her not working later in the series after James was no longer there, she had no marketable skills that would have gotten her a job that would have made any kind of a difference anyway. She would have searched years before anyone would hire her because of her age and her lack of skills.

Yep.

The fact that she was a black woman in an economically depressed part of Chicago in the 1970s certainly didn't help her chances either.

I could be wrong, but I think she got the Bus Driver job (by the last season?) through a Temp Agency...

01-04-2014, 03:35 PM	#1
TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 99,152	The biggest mystery of Good Times When the evans needed money and JJ was looking for a job. So why the hell wasn't Florida looking for a job with him since she had no small kids at home and no more husband to support her? Futhermore why was she not working period since all her children were school aged??? She could have atleast worked part-time to supplement James income but no she stayed home knowing the family needed the extra income and her husband was not making much???? WHY????????? LMAO

01-04-2014, 11:19 PM	#2
cleverfun3000 Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 18, 2008 Location: Manhattan Posts: 1,685	As far as not working when she was married to James, more than likely he was way too macho to allow his wife to work. He would have looked at it as him being a failure as a providing husband. As far as her not working later in the series after James was no longer there, she had no marketable skills that would have gotten her a job that would have made any kind of a difference anyway. She would have searched years before anyone would hire her because of her age and her lack of skills.

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Janice Retired Admin - Hollywood Swingin' Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 03, 2001 Location: Beantown Posts: 36,388	That's the way it was written in the script.