After the pay channels started encrypting their signals, his business had withered, and he was forced to takea part-time job at a company that uplinked cable programming to different satellites across the country.
Similarly, in two-adult households, it rarely makes sense for the woman to take up full-time work before the man, or for one to start a part-time job before the other is working part of the reason that almost one in five households has no earner.