[Asclepius]

You see, I've been there - trying to keep up in the ever changing world of macro-econonomics.

Cool. You must be doing well. The master electrician who rewired our basement a while back jkmmakes over US$200,000.00 a year even on semi-retirement. He's a Holocaust surviver on the board of a local modern Orthodox synogogue; he showed me his tatoo. The carpenter whose crew re-roofed our home drives a silver Lexus, and so does his daughter.

So you must be doing well. Good for you. What a great economy, wouldn't you say?

[Havoc]

You know what they say about assumption...

[XBob]

should have stuck with those jobs, but they dried up, when we got to the moon (I am from Cape Canaveral), and there were no jobs to be had of any kind, went back to school and got 'retrained' and 'upgraded' my skills to military, and when the Vietnam war jobs dried up, I went into oil, and when that dried up (in the oil crash of the 80's), I went into working on the shuttle to recover from the Challenger fiasco.

So - I've been through it, training, and training, and retraining and retraining.