Re: Modern Marvels

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:
>>>>> "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.
> 
The starting wage for a civil engineer with a graduate degree is a 
larger US city is about $40/year, or less than a third of what a doctor 
or lawyer would make.

>>> 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.
> 
Any more good tales of fiction?

> 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.
> 
To get a job as a county engineer, one needs to be related to someone 
currently in the department or on the county board. Most public sector 
jobs are filled in a similar manner.

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