Re: Overseas Job Migrations - one industry's perspective

zach wrote:
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> "R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

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> > Sounds like Star Trek.  But I find it hard to believe that people
> > would choose to do some of the jobs that need to be done unless
> > they had to.  You and I might be happy enough to work at our jobs,
> > but I can't imagine, for instance, the Roto-Router man, or at least
> > most of them, actually preferring to unstop toilets versus some of
> > the alternatives, like just taking a walk in the park.  I could be
> > wrong.  Or maybe the march of science and technology will produce
> > clogless toilets, or maybe swarms of nanobots that we can dump
> > down the john like Draino to clean the pipes.  "Mister Scott,
> > report to Captain Kirk's cabin and bring the nanobots." :-)
> 
> Considering plumbers make over $70/hr, unstopping toilets doesn't
> sound like a bad deal for a few years.

Art probably agrees with you.  I gravitate more toward finish
carpentry or custom furniture making, but I'd starve trying to
make a living at that (although I've furnished about a third of
my house that way; at the moment I have a new set of bookshelves
in the sanding stage).  Of course, burger flipping is about
starvation wages, so why not?

Regards,
Russell