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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1180433" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>The problem is where do you go for a better paying job? If everyone who's job pays poorly were to go look for another job that didn't require some kind of special training upfront the relatively few available would be taken quickly. If then everyone were to go get the training necessary to better themselves in something that pays better then those jobs would be filled quickly too. Tens of millions would have to settle for what's available, and most don't pay well. The best you could hope for is to work at least two jobs and between the two do ok. But what kind of life is that? If kids were smart these days they'd join the military. Plenty of work there that won't get you killed and you'd walk away with a lifetime pension at 38. Get into a field there with a civilian demand, come out into a well paying job with a monthly pension to supplement it. I was naive to leave the Air Force thinking I could do better on the outside, should have stayed in. Or get on with UPS or the Post Office early on, the sooner the better. Knew a 58 year old courier in Texas who had retired from the Post Office with a $2800 a month pension. The single biggest mistake young workers make coming out of high school is getting on with a company and thinking if they stick with it they'll be rewarded. And of course the employers will lead them to believe that. Capitalism works, but it's predatory. The rank and file are the most vulnerable, management takes care of their own and treats us as if we're a different species who is here to be exploited. Cattle are to be milked and/or eaten. Next time you have a room full of couriers being told what's what by a couple of mgrs think of a couple of cowboys managing a herd. And everyone but the herd seems to know what the herd is there for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1180433, member: 24302"] The problem is where do you go for a better paying job? If everyone who's job pays poorly were to go look for another job that didn't require some kind of special training upfront the relatively few available would be taken quickly. If then everyone were to go get the training necessary to better themselves in something that pays better then those jobs would be filled quickly too. Tens of millions would have to settle for what's available, and most don't pay well. The best you could hope for is to work at least two jobs and between the two do ok. But what kind of life is that? If kids were smart these days they'd join the military. Plenty of work there that won't get you killed and you'd walk away with a lifetime pension at 38. Get into a field there with a civilian demand, come out into a well paying job with a monthly pension to supplement it. I was naive to leave the Air Force thinking I could do better on the outside, should have stayed in. Or get on with UPS or the Post Office early on, the sooner the better. Knew a 58 year old courier in Texas who had retired from the Post Office with a $2800 a month pension. The single biggest mistake young workers make coming out of high school is getting on with a company and thinking if they stick with it they'll be rewarded. And of course the employers will lead them to believe that. Capitalism works, but it's predatory. The rank and file are the most vulnerable, management takes care of their own and treats us as if we're a different species who is here to be exploited. Cattle are to be milked and/or eaten. Next time you have a room full of couriers being told what's what by a couple of mgrs think of a couple of cowboys managing a herd. And everyone but the herd seems to know what the herd is there for. [/QUOTE]
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