[central_va]

High School grads arn't making six figures anymore. I honestly feel bad because NJ is very expensive. I guess his house is paid for?

[Mr. K]

Machine operator making $100K???

I heard janitors were making over $65K

Then they wonder why the japanese are making better cars cheaper...AND WHERE THEIR JOBS WENT

[dfwgator]

Working two jobs and still underemployed

"Only two jobs? Why you lazy lima bean."

[Republic of Texas]

Sounds like he needs a third job.

[NewJerseyJoe]

p4l

[tnlibertarian]

Sumpin’ don’t add up. He’s 49. Lost his job 3 years ago. That would make him 46 at that time. Worked there 23 years since he graduated high school. So he graduated at age 23?

[T. P. Pole]

Under-employed now, or over-employed then? Bet it was a union job that is done for half in non-union plants.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

I don't know what is going on, but it is sickening. Comments directed at whether his age adds up, why he was making what he was, him making that much too soon, etc.

Bottom line, the guy is busting his back end and so is his wife to hang on, and most on this thread are trying to discredit him. Unbelievable.

[RonF]

I've got a B.S. and an M.S. and have been working steadily for the last 26 years, the last 20 of them in IT. I still don't make $100K. So I sympathize with the man's personal situation but I can't comprehend that he has a right to expect to get a job that good with the education he has. His prior salary was probably artificially inflated by a union, and that sent the jobs overseas.

[FightThePower!]

I understand this guy is having a difficult time, but he was way over paid. He should have saved 1/2 his income.

[Gritty]

There are a lot of Americans in this tough sort of job situation out here.

Now the Democraps intend to legalize 10s of million more low end job seekers who will compete to suck up jobs at this end of the job ladder?

Swell, huh?

[TonyInOhio]

[Buckeye McFrog]

This is exactly what happened in Western Pennsylvania in the early 1980’s. The steel industry went away almost overnight, and tens of thousands of jobs vanished. They were union jobs with high pay and prime benefits, and people usually went into them right out of high-school because the money was so good. Once they went away most of those workers never again found a situation that could ever approach what they lost. Many people let go in their 40’s and 50’s had to stumble along for years in a series of part-time minimum wage jobs. (they still keep on pulling that Democrat party lever though, cause Dagnabit, they just KNOW one of these days we will elect the RIGHT politician and all of those high-paying union steel jobs will just come flooding back!)