Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree, Chris, times are quite different now. This one world economy has left the blue-collar worker in the US with very little to find in gainfull employment. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim > Back then that was possible. School was cheap and jobs paid living wages. > My father, right out of high school at 18, was working as a stockboy at a > local grocery store and actually earned enough to live. That job today > pays $8 an hour, which is about half the minimal cost of living for a > single man or woman with no children in Fort Wayne (and keep in mind that > the cost of living here is very low compared to most of the USA). > > Not only did he make enough to live, he bought a brand new car and was > paying cash for his tuition at IU-Fort Wayne on his earnings! He ended up > quitting college because the phone company hired him as a lineman making a > lot more money than he would have made as a teacher (which is what he was > going to college to be). The lineman job paid him the equivalent of > $45,000 to start and he was 8 or 19 when he got that job! > > Those jobs don't exist for young men today. They're gone. Its all $8 an > hour, even for most jobs requiring a university degree here. That's why > students are going into debt for school. With college costing what it > does, and rents and gas prices and food costing what they do, and jobs > paying so little, working your way through college is not possible. > > I see ads in the newspaper and on job websites every day demanding someone > with 5 yrs of experience and a bachelors degree, then the ad says the job > pays a "Competitive Wage" of $7.95 an hour. F--k that. My student loan > bill each month is more than those jobs pay in a month of fulltime work! > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > On 3/20/12 5:07 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > >>Hi Sonny, >> >>In the late 1940s, I knew of no such things as student loans. With a >>little >>help from my parents, I entered college and then used the simple musical >>skills I learned in our high school band to work my way into the local >>college dance band and a smaller group that played Saturday nights in a >>night spot. The earnings weren't great, but they enabled me to get >>through >>four years and finish with an engineering degree. >> >>I concluded that, though I enjoyed the music business, I would pursue >>engineering as a career to make a living. >> >>Jim Nichols >>Tullahoma, TN USA >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:50 PM >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim >> >> >>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jim Nichols >>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Philippe, >>>> >>>> My point is that the true masters of an instrument such as a clarinet >>>> make >>>> it look so easy to produce enchanting music that most of the audience >>>> have >>>> no idea of the amount of work and practice that it took to get to that >>>> >>> >>> You forgot to add the Parent Plus Student Loans their fathers had to pay >>> off. ;-) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sonny >>> http://sonc.com/look/ >>> http://sonc-hegr.tumblr.com/ >>> Natchitoches, Louisiana >>> >>> USA >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >