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Re: Corporations are your friends
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:13:21 GMT
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> I was
> thinking about an apprentiship as an electrician...
Fool! Get yourself a job a plasterer; the amount I’ve just paid for 2 days
work from a guy who probably left school at 15 has left me in “shock & awe” [1].
> Ah screw it--if I lost my job today I'd collet pogey for the next 10 months,
> watch Oprah, play video games and eat junk food until I had a heart attack.
...all that without a beer; have you given it up for lent?
Scott A
[1] I almost had a nervous breakdown when I tried to do it myself last week.
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| (...) So there's this time at Oktoberfest--I'm always the DD (cause I don't drink alcohol...) and I have 5 passed out people in my little tiny Accord sedan... Leaving Kitchener on hwy 8--the police put a RIDE program right there (surprise, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) [1]. it may pay good, but the problem with jobs like these are lack of benefits. my father-in-law easily makes much more than i (he's a house painter), but i'll be able to retire when i'm 60 with almost a million coming from my retirement (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) As a former journeyman electrician I can tell you they get laid off too (actually I was a shipyard electrician so, unlike the outside electricians my job was relatively secure-- that is until they closed the shipyard...) (...) Yeah, and get (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm in IT--some large company pays me to play on systems all day. But if, say, tomorrow I were to get laid off, what would I do? There are more qualified persons out there than myself in the IT field. Eh, I'd go back to floor (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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