[nylug-talk] Thanks, I landed somewhere....

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Chris Cawley wrote:

> $50,000 less, 1,000 e-mails a day less, 4,000 pages a month less, 20
> hours a week less. <- NOT JOKING.
> 
> 35 hours a week plus, vacation that I can actually take plus,
> permanently in NYC plus, union benefits plus, a job that should be here
> after I am 50 plus...
Union jobs are the best jobs, no doubt. The only jobs that remain union
*today* are non-outsourcable. However, don't expect this to continue
forever.  Hopefully, some smart President or Congress eventually realizes
that unions are, at best, a form of monopoly, or at worst, an extension of 
mafia, and will remove the obscene protections the labor unions have.

> No offense, when you are 20 you see the world through rose colored
> classes.  By the time you hit 30, you realize that you are not
> invulnerable.  By the time you are 40, after 60-100 hour weeks, divorce,
> etc., the world is once again different.  By the time you hit 50, you
> have either figured out the above or end up working in retail for $35K -
> and happy to get that.
That's all very true...