[Sloth]

I graduated with a chemical engineering degree back in 1998, in what was hailed by the media as the best economy in human history (due to Clinton). It took me three months to find any sort of job, and I didn’t a real engineering position until two years after graduation. I distinctly remember reading a newspaper article at the time about an illegal alien with a felony record getting a tree-trimming job paying $24K... while I was happy to finally get a tech position paying $9.50/hour.

[Nowhere Man]

I graduated with a chemical engineering degree back in 1998, in what was hailed by the media as the best economy in human history (due to Clinton). It took me three months to find any sort of job, and I didn’t a real engineering position until two years after graduation. I distinctly remember reading a newspaper article at the time about an illegal alien with a felony record getting a tree-trimming job paying $24K... while I was happy to finally get a tech position paying $9.50/hour.

Yeah, I think the days of the good jobs started to decline even way before the economic mess we are in now. I used to listen to "For the People" with Chuck Harder and he always claimed that our standard of living started to go down from 1973 to now. Myself, I don't know, I guess depending on which field you're in, the date could vary, but all I can say is the good times are over.