Re: Modern Marvels, i.e., Mr. Ed Dolan the Great!

"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:
>> [...]
>>>> A starting salary of $40K seems good to me. I imagine after a decade
or 
>>>> so, it is twice that. Many doctors and lawyers do not start making
the 
>>>> big money until after many years of drudgery in the trenches.
>>>>
>>> $40K/year is NOT a good salary, when rent on a small, cheap apartment
is 
>>> $10K/year, college tuition, fees, books and housing exceed $20K/year
at 
>>> a state school, the grocery bill for a healthy diet (without luxury
item 
>>> or eating out) is $3K+/year, etc.
>>>
>>> $40K/year is NOT enough to pay off student loans early or to buy a 
>>> single bedroom condominium in today's market, even with a frugal 
>>> lifestyle.
>>
>> Mr. Sherman does not know the meaning of frugality. He is and always
has 
>> been a big spender and given to riotous living. That is why he can't
live 
>> on $40K a year, even though unmarried and no children. He needed to
take 
>> a vow of poverty right out of college at least for a few years. Instead

>> he elected to live like a plutocrat. After all, he was was entitled by 
>> virtue of his degree to live above his station in life, was he not?
>> [...]
>>
> Mr. Ed is back to his practice of making false assumptions, I see.
>
> Since graduation, the only optional spending I have done is the adoption

> of three orphans: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/19704682@[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
>.
>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>> I am sure the above is not true.
>>>>
>>> Since Mr. Ed Dolan has not looked for employment since the Johnson 
>>> administration, what would he know?
>>
>> Ed Dolan the Great would not be caught dead looking, let alone working,

>> at ANY kind of job. That is for worker bees like Mr. Sherman. Why he 
>> can't manage his finances better even though making the ungodly amount
of 
>> $40K a year is proof positive that he is indeed condemned to be forever
a 
>> worker bee. That is a fate worse than death. Ugh!
>>
> Mr. Ed is again clueless.
>
>> But don't get me wrong. Ed Dolan the Great actually likes WORK! He can 
>> sit around and watch others do it all day long.
>>
>>>> The secret to the Ed Dolan way of life is not to earn more, but to 
>>>> spend less. Unless and until you learn to do that, you will always be

>>>> in a struggle for your place in the sun. Ed Dolan the Great leads a 
>>>> life of poverty and Saint Edward the Great leads a life of
asceticism. 
>>>> Who cares! We are all going to be dead soon enough.
>>>>
>>> Easy to say for the person who lives off assets earned by others.
>>
>> It is easy to say for someone who knows how manage his resources, no 
>> matter how limited. Mr. Sherman has elected to live the luxurious life 
>> even though he can't afford it. Ed Dolan the Great has elected to live 
>> the kind of life he can afford no matter how much he has to do without.

>> Ed Dolan the Great has chosen leisure and asceticism; Mr. Sherman has 
>> chosen la dolce vita and hedonism, riotous living and squandering his 
>> patrimony. He needs to read the fable of the Prodigal Son.
>>
>> I urge Mr. Sherman to give up his spendthrift ways and his riotous 
>> living. He needs to examine the pure and holy life and then live it
like 
>> Ed Dolan the Great, aka Saint Edward the Great. He is a Great Saint and

>> took vows of poverty and chastity while in his youth. Saint Edward the 
>> Great however took no vow of obedience and so a life in the Church was 
>> out of the question. Yea, He is a Great Saint without a religion!
>>
> See above. [Yawn].

So work away at your humble calling in life and stop bellyaching about not

getting paid enough. I suspect you are being overpaid for what you do (he
is 
a freaking civil engineer), but the free market works well enough at
sorting 
out types like you. Frankly, I would like to kick your dumb ass to Darfur 
for a month so you might learn something really im****tant in life. $40K
not 
enough indeed!

Regards,

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