[Alberta's Child]

Do you have any idea what the going rate for a licensed electrician is these days? For heaven's sake, those guys don't even need any customer service skills at all -- they can ignore 90% of the phone calls they get, and still make money hand over fist!

[RaceBannon]

That is exactly what I was thinking.

With my shoulder surgery, I wont be able to do manual labor until the end of Sept at the earliest! At least, anything over 20 pounds and above my shulder.

But, I am expecting a settlement, a good size one, and I am not confident that finishing my BS is going to do me any good, even with re-locating.

I was contemplating electrician or civil engineering, sewers or highways, that or a maintenance worker on power lines through their union

But not anything that resembled producing anyting at all, no factory skills at all, I have had it, and I see our nation only being sold out to the lowest bidder.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Do you have any idea what the going rate for a licensed electrician is these days? For heaven's sake, those guys don't even need any customer service skills at all -- they can ignore 90% of the phone calls they get, and still make money hand over fist!

A few years ago, my daughter's bf made big bucks at 21 yrs old. After 9/11, the company he worked for lost their prison contracts, and laid off everyone but family. It took him 2 yrs to find something that pays 10 bucks less an hour. He went door to door to every sleazy business looking for under the table work while he faxed hundreds of resumes.

The attitude some employers have is that everyone is expendable.

[CasearianDaoist]

As long as you join the Unions and support the Democratic party. Have you tried to get into a union in middle age. It take a decade of @ss licking to get a union card, at least it does on the East Coast. Do you really think that the solution for 3 million unemployees technolgist is to join Labor Unions?