Especially after those two other men died on the job.

Money is great but even better (IMHO) is respect from your employers. Sounds like you have that.

Enjoy!

Yeah, if they hadn't have such hard-asses at my previous employer it would have made the job a lot better.

I had two degrees but could not find a job in my field or otherwise. I spent more than two years doing whatever odd job I could find. Nothing that would last more than a few days or weeks just to pay my rent.

In the mean time, I applied to more than 300 companies nation wide. This was before the internet, you relied on list of companies recruiting departments. Each letter and application had to be typed. I never even got one interview.

It was 1984 before I found a permanent job. It was using my secondary degree and not what I went to school for. I thought, I would stick it out for a couple of years and move on. That was 32 years ago and I am still with the same company having done fairly well with it.

It was the middle of the Reagan regime.

Good luck with your new job.

And I know where you are coming from.

these Reagan years when you couldn't beg a job.

I had one GOP believer tell me on Twitter how many jobs Reagan created and how wonderful those years were.

That's why Willie Nelson was having Farm Aid and people were desperate for a job.

Especially after I heard about the two guys dying on the job there.

and the job wasn't hard to get. The pay in 1978 was $12 hr. Jobs like this were plentiful. Anyone wishing to do a little hard work could make good pay.

Good for You!!



I live a tourism area and there's little else, pay sucks and so do the hours and sometimes the employers. I am in a constant state of the eternal job search, I hate it. I did work my ass off for two college degrees for this but timing and circumstance leave me with this as I approach retirement age.

Congrats.

I read about people like me (you) who are struggling, and it makes me appreciate the modest means I have. It's a really tough economy in which we live. Be grateful for what you have. Peace.

But I have to admit that in my experience my co-workers are mostly very scared of doing anything that management doesn't like. I mean deep down scared. I'm 68 years old and have a strong personality so being a union member is a natural for me, but I've also found that most of the people I work with are scared to make any waves whatsoever. It's a very sad fact. A lot of them try to make me be silent too, which I am not and so far I get results for being outspoken. And when I do speak out I'm also very grateful that I belong to a union that backs me up.

I try to make co-workers understand that there are many American heroes and heroins who changed history by facing fears. Harriet Tubman is a great example of someone determined to put her life on the line for freedom, MLK Jr. for equality, Michael Moore for what is Right, and so many others.

I've come to the sad conclusion that most people will do anything their 'masters' want. Maybe that's why politics is so much about business as usual. It's why the 1% are the 1%.