Re: Modern Marvels

Edward Dolan wrote:
> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>>>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>> I am looking forward to a upcoming relocation so I can start riding
a 
>>>>>> bicycle to work.
>>>>> Why can't you settle down in one spot? All this constant relocating
is 
>>>>> for gypsies. I suggest you get married and have about 10 kids. Then
you 
>>>>> will be permanently settled in one spot for the rest of your life.
>>>>>
>>>> Who said my abode was changing?
>>>>
>>>> I would shoot myself before having children around - the only problem

>>>> with the "Modest Proposal" was it being satire and not a serious 
>>>> proposition.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, being married and having multiple children is no barrier to
being 
>>>> told to relocate.
>>> Actually, being married with multiple children will anchor you. Your
wife 
>>> and kids will see to that.[...]
>>>
>> The choice is often move or be fired. Jobs are hard to find, not that
Mr. 
>> Ed the Slacker would know.
> 
> The Great Ed Dolan retired from the world of work and jobs when he was
30 
> years of age. To work all of your adult life marks you for a fool. Ed
Dolan 
> the Great elected to pursue the life of a dilettante and as a result he 
> knows many things that others like Tom Sherman are ignorant of.
> 
If Mr. Ed had not inherited money and property, he would have been 
homeless at age 30.

> What is amazing to me is that Mr. Sherman is a civil engineer, not
married 
> and no children to sup****t, yet he is always belly aching about money
and 
> jobs. How can this be - in the land of the free and the home of the
brave? 
> Something is rotten in Denmark if you ask me!

Yes, engineering services are a commodity to be awarded to the lowest 
bidder. Too bad we do not apply the same fiscal discipline to doctors 
and lawyers.

> I suspect he has expensive 
> vices which keep him constantly broke and on the move.
> 
Mr. Ed is out of touch of the modern world. At the school I went too, 
undergraduate tuition, fees and a dorm room exceeds $20K per year (and 
yes, this is a public land grant university). My rent for a cheap 
apartment is over $10K per year. Food from the grocery store is easily 
$10/day.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful