My first thought, too. These jobs didn’t get sent overseas and they aren’t coming back. Just another case of tech displacing people in mostly useless, dead-end jobs. I’ve often marveled at the fact they could actually find people willing to sit in a toll booth and collect dirty cash from strangers all the while breathing filthy, horribly polluted air and suffering non-stop noise. What a yuck job.
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a job is a job and all work has meaning. There are plenty of people who need this sort of work and cannot do much more.
There is great dignity in work, no doubt. I was not denigrating honest work and it is far, far superior to being a layabout welfare leach.
Like Mike Rowe, I just marvel at the tough, thankless, dirty jobs and the fact people ARE willing to do them.
not a problem if they can start out at 25K a year and no fancy pensions. Here in the Peoples Republic of NY, they start out at 45k with full pension and benefits. Meanwhile the roads are still crap and taxes skyrocket every year. Tolls skyrocket as well.
Exactly, i understand many of these jobs are handouts thru elected state political hacks.