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To: SavoyyTruffle
Used to be, people who wanted work would move to where the jobs are.

Well, I'd be glad to if there were any jobs out there in my profession. There aren't. (I used to build nuclear power plants.)

I did check with GE Power Systems. They had an opening for a turbine engineer - BSEE with 5+ years of experience (both of which I have) and willing to travel. Starting pay: $10 per hour.

How many times do you think I should retrain, anyway? Let's see, after I got my BSEE I went into electronics. After the Japanese killed off that industry, I went into nuclear power. After the environmentalists killed off that industry, I got my building contractor's license in California. After the no-growthers and state bureaucracy made it impossible to make any money doing that, I got into aerospace. Now that's gone too. So I learned AutoCAD and occasionally get some work designing houses.

Maybe I should buy a monkey and an organ-grinder?

I have no doubt that there are new jobs being created, but they're all in the service industry. Why is it so hard for people to understand that a minimum-wage job at McD's or a telemarketing job is not equal to a job building powerplants, designing skyscrapers, or launching space shuttles?

Most people on this forum wouldn't drive 120 miles each day for a minimum wage job, but maybe you expect me to do that?

22 posted on 05/08/2004 1:19:41 PM PDT by snopercod (I used to be disgusted. Then I became amused. Now I'm disgusted again.)
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To: snopercod
I know the feeling, I did some Yucca Mtn. Nuclear, some IT, lots of other stuff. Retraining for a moving target is not much fun.
24 posted on 05/08/2004 2:05:50 PM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: snopercod
I have no doubt that there are new jobs being created, but they're all in the service industry. Why is it so hard for people to understand that a minimum-wage job at McD's or a telemarketing job is not equal to a job building powerplants, designing skyscrapers, or launching space shuttles?

At last count nonsense like this had been shown to be false 643 times.

32 posted on 05/08/2004 7:15:01 PM PDT by Coop (Freedom isn't free)
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