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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:49:47 -0400, "Mr. Opus McDopus"
wrote:

I'd say that you just described about 90% of the nations working class
people. But what would you know about the working class, right!

Working class? I started picking shade grown tobacco at age 14 and
did that until I was 16 when I worked in a super market after school
and on week-ends until I graduated high school and got a job at Armour
Star Co. Joined the Navy and went up the ranks very quickly because I
did my job well. And, I was poor, a helluva lot more poor than a
North Cacklacky working class person. Retired and worked my ass off
to get promoted from technician, to engineering associate and finally
to engineer. When I took a buy-out in 1992, I then worked for a
driving school (part time). Working class? I think I'm working
class, always have been. I am not in the stupid class, however, like
you. There is no reason why you couldn't have planned your life a
little better. No reason what so ever.

I tried to give you some advice about your future, but I'm betting it
went in one ear and out the other, sort of like all the advice you've
ever received.

Disrespectful of janitors? Hell no. My dad was a truck driver and my
mom a retail clerk. I respect any man that has a job and is feeding
his family. You missed my point, but there is no sense in trying to
explain it to you.

Enjoy your life, Mark. I'm glad you are alive, but you need to stop
your petty belly-aching. You tales of woe are becoming hackneyed.

Dave

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"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:49:47 -0400, "Mr. Opus McDopus"
wrote:

I'd say that you just described about 90% of the nations working class
people. But what would you know about the working class, right!

Working class? I started picking shade grown tobacco at age 14 and
did that until I was 16 when I worked in a super market after school
and on week-ends until I graduated high school and got a job at Armour
Star Co. Joined the Navy and went up the ranks very quickly because I
did my job well. And, I was poor, a helluva lot more poor than a
North Cacklacky working class person. Retired and worked my ass off
to get promoted from technician, to engineering associate and finally
to engineer. When I took a buy-out in 1992, I then worked for a
driving school (part time). Working class? I think I'm working
class, always have been. I am not in the stupid class, however, like
you. There is no reason why you couldn't have planned your life a
little better. No reason what so ever.

**** Dave, why didn't you become a Senoir Career Couselor?

I tried to give you some advice about your future, but I'm betting it
went in one ear and out the other,

Dave receivin' advice from you is like askin' the Grim Reaper for a life
insurance policy!

sort of like all the advice you've ever received.

Please, expound on your knowledge of the advice that I have ever received.

Disrespectful of janitors? Hell no. My dad was a truck driver and my
mom a retail clerk.

Thank Allah, they weren't fookish enough to become janitors. Hey, did your
folks retire with a million bucks, each?

I respect any man that has a job and is feeding
his family.

Even if he doesn't have a million bucks kicked back, just in case of an
emergency?

You missed my point, but there is no sense in trying to
explain it to you.

No you point was pectly clear. You don't consider work as a janitor to be
worthy of respect!

Enjoy your life, Mark.

I am, thanks.

I'm glad you are alive, but you need to stop
your petty belly-aching.

I don't recall doin' any belly-achin'? best I can figure, you are the one
belly-achin' about me havin' a childish discourse with several other folks.

You tales of woe are becoming hackneyed.

When exactly did I have a tale of woe. Please, enlighten me and anyone else
foolish enough to be reading a dumbass thread.

Op --alt.military.retired, what a hoot!--

Dave

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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Bob Weinberger wrote:

Well, just to poke the bear and keep this highly entertaining dust-up
alive ...

Sadist.

And you forgot Chambana's own "Silicon Prairie", the high-tech
mecca of the midwest.

I don't know who wrote what, when, to whom, but repeat aloud to yourself
several times,

"high-tech mecca"

"high-tech mecca"

"high-tech mecca"

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JR wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Bob Weinberger wrote:

Well, just to poke the bear and keep this highly entertaining dust-up
alive ...

Sadist.

And you forgot Chambana's own "Silicon Prairie", the high-tech
mecca of the midwest.

I don't know who wrote what, when, to whom, but repeat aloud to yourself
several times,

"high-tech mecca"

"high-tech mecca"

"high-tech mecca"

......and then tell me that wouldn't be a good name for a rock band....

Silicon Forest
 

wrote in message
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In article qEwtg.11218$bd4.1438@trnddc01,
says...
Thanks for the list of places to send resumes to though.....just kidding
anybody from work who might be reading.
- Ken

P.S. Interestingly enough, the unemployment rate in the two counties
that make up the bulk of the Si Forest is higher than the rate for NC.
:-)

Not that I comprehend much of this thread but . . . I am (was?) a labor
economist and will point out that many Western labor markets traditionally
run a point or two higher in their unemployment rates than the same
"tightness" or "looseness" in demand might generate in similar size labor
markets in other parts of the country due to several factors, including, a
larger frictional component, factors related to in-migration of labor both
internal and external, generally smaller proportions of structural
unemployment etc etc etc.

Bottom line is that Western, particularly West Coast markets run healthier
at a slightly higher unemployment rate than the rest of the country.

And any economic geographer will tell you that the weight of the country's
high tech has been shifting Westward for almost 60 years, even with all the
efforts of the politicians to lard up their constituencies with defense pork
and other unproductive scams. Notable exceptions like Research Triangle,
Chambama, Princeton notwithstanding.

Dave