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Blue collar U.S. males lose more ground
Reuters ^
| 19 May 09
| Ed Stoddard
Posted on 05/18/2009 6:45:32 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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Don't worry male blue collar workers! Women's Studies professors are getting 6% raises! Praise Obama.
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posted on
05/18/2009 6:45:33 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: All
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posted on
05/18/2009 6:46:40 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: SkyPilot
"I've been looking to get into law enforcement because it's a growth area," he said, but had no immediate prospects.Yeah, it is here, too. 'Cause, you know, pretty soon everyone's gonna be a criminal.
Everywhere is Brazil. /artistic allusion.
To: SkyPilot
If he's been unemployed for 16 months in the IT field in a major city, either he doesn't have one major certification to speak of, or he's doing things the wrong way. I live an hour outside of Atlanta, and I get at least one or two monthly hits on resumes out there that are as old as Moses. Not that it in any way diminishes my desire to take a flame-thrower to that gaggle of militant, uptight rug-munchers you posted. She-things like that will ultimately get their existential comeuppance, in my view.
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posted on
05/18/2009 6:56:13 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(This tagline for rent.)
To: SkyPilot
"Ringler, a 49-year-old computer technician..." Mmm... Since when is a computer technician position considered "blue collar"? I thought that these were the kinds of jobs those old fashioned factory workers were supposed to be training for once we shipped all of the manufacturing jobs over seas. I guess we all need to start training to be computer engineers. Until of course those jobs also start to be considered "blue collar".
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posted on
05/18/2009 6:57:02 PM PDT
by
Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
To: SkyPilot
Boy, not a babe in the bunch of them.
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posted on
05/18/2009 6:58:25 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: SkyPilot
“a 49-year-old computer technician”
That’s a blue collar job? Amazing how when I was doing that I had to do it business casual.
If it is blue collar, it’s not our fault he paid for college so he could put all his eggs in one basket. I don’t want to hear anyone like that whining because they ended up screwed.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:01:48 PM PDT
by
dajeeps
To: Viking2002
“...and I get at least one or two monthly hits on resumes out there that are as old as Moses.”
You nailed it. Husband is an IT Geek with an alphabet of certifications and he gets head-hunted at least once a month...from a resume that’s 2 years old. (And that’s OLD in IT.)
He’s enjoying being his own boss these days. Plenty of work out there if one is motivated enough to seek it out.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:02:57 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: SkyPilot
In other news:
Republicans are happier than Democrats and ... old men tend to be happier than old women.
Go figure.
Women's Studies? Urban Studies? Basket Weaving? iPod Studies? The Sociology of Porn?
Wow. Diversity offers such a cornucopia of educational choices! It's hard to pick just one!
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:05:08 PM PDT
by
ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
To: Huskrrrr
Boy, not a babe in the bunch of them. For babes you need to check out the founders of the NOW organization in their original group photo 1966.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:06:37 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: Diana in Wisconsin
You got that right. Even my company's clients ping me to see if I want to come over to their house and reload software, remove viruses, recover files, figure out what their kid did to their browser settings, etc. If I had the motivation and start-up capital to do it, I'd go into data recovery services if I was in a major city. BIG MONEY.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:07:49 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(This tagline for rent.)
To: SkyPilot; Huskrrrr
Interesting that the feminists (heterosexual back then) in 1966 still smiled.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:09:13 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: ansel12
Isn’t that Michael Steele second from the right?
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:14:57 PM PDT
by
Godebert
To: ansel12
Oh my, is michelle obimbo in the front row, 2nd from right. It is hard to miss that famous stance. You know, the bowling ball between the knees look.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:16:43 PM PDT
by
I_be_tc
To: Godebert
I don’t know but I think that I could cure that one on the left front.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:17:11 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: Cindy
Thanks for those links Cindy!
To: SkyPilot
I may be behind the times but I don’t consider a computer technician to be a blue collar worker, not that there’s anything wrong with being a computer technician. In my youth a blue collar worker was someone who worked in a factory, drove a truck or otherwise actually got callouses on their hands through manual labor-but like I said, I’m probably just behind the times.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:28:12 PM PDT
by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
To: SkyPilot
If the goal of the Left is to upset the current power structure, to empower the underclasses at the expense of the bourgeoisie, then it would seem they are accomplishing exactly what they set out to do.
Good news for "minorities." Bad news for WASP males.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:30:24 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: dajeeps
He doesn’t have a college degree.
That could be his problem. Lots of companies require a degree before they will consider someone for a job like a computer tech.
He might have 20 years experience in his field, but he won’t even get an interview and the job will go to someone with no experience and a BA in sociology.
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:51:53 PM PDT
by
hirn_man
To: Viking2002
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posted on
05/18/2009 7:53:49 PM PDT
by
tbw2
(Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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