more men not working now

[OS]

article

quite damning on many levels

 

[compuwiz1]

I read the article. Looks like just another fat, lazy douche bag, who decided to quit working. When his credit cards are tapped, he's used up all his savings, and his wife has left him for a "more ambitious man", I wonder where he'll be?

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
I read the article. Looks like just another fat, lazy douche bag, who decided to quit working. When his credit cards are tapped, he's used up all his savings, and his wife has left him for a "more ambitious man", I wonder where he'll be?

Getting alimony, hopefully. What's good for the goose...

 

[TekDemon]

Heh in that respect I guess I feel rather lucky that even if I was fired or whatever I'd probably take all my spare time and attempt one of my stupid web 2.0 ideas (last time around I made like $100 bucks for like 80 hours of work....but I think it could have actually ended up a decent income stream if I hadn't just given up). While ebaying for a more useful income in the meantime...
But if you put yourself in the shoes of someone who's just done the same blue collar job for like, 30 years, you can probably kinda see how they might not be able to adapt too well.

Not everyone is quite as bright as others...super bright people might be able to immigrate from one country to another with like $5 in their pockets and then like, 10 years later they'll have some PhD and a six figure job in their new country, but on the flipside you'll also have people who can barely function as it is in their current cushy job-and if they were sent abroad with $5 in their pockets they'd probably end up dead within the week lol.

 

[rudder]

Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college.

Most of these missing men are, like Mr. Beggerow, former blue-collar workers with no more than a high school education.

He must have went to an exceptional high school. Either that or the community college system in Illinois is not very picky.

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: rudder
Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college.

Most of these missing men are, like Mr. Beggerow, former blue-collar workers with no more than a high school education.

He must have went to an exceptional high school. Either that or the community college system in Illinois is not very picky.

Probably had some friend there that got him the job.

 

[bozack]

Gotta admit though at their ages who is going to want to hire them at salaries even close to what they made in the past?...

The fact is companies wouldn't view him or anyone like him as an investment, more like a liability...

 

[TheSlamma]

People need to get used to the fact that working for a steel mill or any other company in any other field for 50 years is a THING OF THE PAST.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: bozack
Gotta admit though at their ages who is going to want to hire them at salaries even close to what they made in the past?...

The fact is companies wouldn't view him or anyone like him as an investment, more like a liability...

I'd probably get a CDL or something and go that route.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: rudder
Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college.

Most of these missing men are, like Mr. Beggerow, former blue-collar workers with no more than a high school education.

He must have went to an exceptional high school. Either that or the community college system in Illinois is not very picky.

Just like the one you gone to, huh?

Anyway, my own father might well be in that boat, had he been working for somebody else. I think he'd get cabin fever after a couple weeks, though. In spite of only having a highschool education, he ran his own business for 20+ years, and knows more about mechanics, woodworking, and similar things than I could ever hope to. A college classroom is not the *only* way to get an education.

Nate