Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Those jobs today pay so little that the airfare to get you there and back will exceed your earnings for the summer. Its not about being 'too good' to work, its being too smart to work for nothing. If I wanted to work for $7.75 an hour, I'd stay in Fort Wayne and work at Walmart (they start at $8 here!) and it wouldn't cost me a fortune to fly to the work location. If I asked my father for a loan to fly to Alaska to work for minimum wage, he'd slap up side the head and ask me how an educated man could contemplate doing something so damned stupid (seriously, he would say that!) when I could make that here and save the airfare. Rightly so. Those jobs are for rich kids looking for a fun summer job experience. They don't need the money and don't care about the pay. For someone who actually has to work for a living, such jobs are not realistic. -- 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 5/12/12 10:23 PM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: >Anyone with half a brain can get a seasonal job in Alaska. Anyone on >this list will easily quality. > >http://www.alaskatourjobs.com/alaska-lodge-jobs/ > >It might be cleaning toilets, it might be washing dishes, it might be >flipping burgers, it might be cleaning fish. My co-workers were >journalists, medical students, PhD economists, drifters and many others. > >Hotel operators in the national parks interview and recruit throughout >the Lower 48. Once hired I had to get myself to Anchorage but with a job >in my pocket a loan from family for airfare was no problem. > >Things have changed in the last thirty years: many seasonal employees are >hired from eastern Europe because there aren't enough americans who >aren't too good for these jobs. > >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information