Re: Modern Marvels

"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.

I also saved every penny I ever earned when I did work. The whole purpose
of 
work is to obtain leisure. Without that, life is not worth living.

>> 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.

Sorry, but I have never heard of engineers who were not extremely well
paid. 
You ought to be living la dolce vita by now. But don't get me going on 
doctors and lawyers. I hate them as much as anyone.

>> 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.

Mr. Sherman should hire me to manage his life for him. I would soon have
him 
on easy street.

I think what needs to change is that folks have to stop piling up in large

metros. Small towns and villages are the way to go. Living is cheaper in 
such places. Even a job that does not pay so well will often get you a
long 
ways - and overall life is just less hectic in the quiet and less
populated 
places of the earth.

Mr. Sherman needs to seek out a county engineering job in a rural area.
Such 
jobs seem to be about streets and roads mostly. County engineers are like 
kings and are deferred to by one and all since no one else ever knows what

they are talking about.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota