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Subject: 
Re: Corporations are your friends
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 02:23:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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].

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
benefits ( 403(b) and whatnot)...


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?

mmm... beer good.. mmmm



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  Re: Corporations are your friends
 
(...) 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]. (...) ...all that without a beer; have you given it up for lent? Scott A [1] I almost (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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