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re: What is your advice to this manufacturing worker?
Posted on 11/24/14 at 2:23 pm to htownjeep
Posted on 11/24/14 at 2:23 pm to htownjeep
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Hell, he could go work at a gas station and make more than $10.50 an hour. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Baytown, Tx:
So your advice is for a 49 year old to move across the country to work at a gas station?
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Posted on 11/24/14 at 2:25 pm to Big Scrub TX
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So your advice is for a 49 year old to move across the country to work at a gas station?
if he's failed to save properly and make adjustments to the market to make his labor more valuable? yes
why do we have to give advice to a person who has already made 30 years of poor economic choices for the long-term? sometimes people have put themselves in such a hole that drastic things like moving a long distance for work is all that can be offered. it's not some absurd notion
Posted on 11/24/14 at 2:28 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Posted by Big Scrub TX
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Hell, he could go work at a gas station and make more than $10.50 an hour. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Baytown, Tx:
So your advice is for a 49 year old to move across the country to work at a gas station?
Raising his wage is only going to drive more work elsewhere. And I'm going to say I doubt his story. He sounds skilled yet makes what a Walmart associate makes. He's FOS.
Posted on 11/24/14 at 2:55 pm to Big Scrub TX
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So your advice is for a 49 year old to move across the country to work at a gas station?
If he has no other skills, sure. At least he may could run the place some day.
Maybe he should look into a real trade, with an apprenticeship. Still may have to move but there's obviously nothing for him where he is now.
Posted on 11/24/14 at 3:28 pm to Big Scrub TX
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So your advice is for a 49 year old to move across the country to work at a gas station?
When was 40 and lost my 40K job, as a chef at the end of 2010, I chose to re-evaluate my options. I went back to school and got an AOS degree in wind technology and I had a job one week after graduating. I had to move to the West Texas desert, 50 miles south of Odessa, now I make over $24 and am paying off my school loans and putting money away in savings.
So yes, you have to go where the jobs are, the job isn't going to come to you.
Posted on 11/24/14 at 4:29 pm to Big Scrub TX
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So your advice is for a 49 year old to move across the country to work at a gas station?
Not necessarily, but I was just saying there are many jobs out there that pay more than what he is making. All he seems to be doing is "whoa is me". Screw your degree (we know what that is?), screw your union and get up off your arse and go where the money is.
5905 jobs off of my first google search and you can't tell me there's not one in there that pays more than $10.50/hour that he can't go get.
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