Texaspride73
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I am thinking of a new career but can stay in the same field of work. I have been doing remodeling for several years.
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SignUp Now!Jim the same here. Have a good week fishing. Hook'emI have been out of the work force for sometime (retired). It kills me to see our good jobs going to China and other countries because of the cheap pay we could not live on in America. You business men and women what is it going to take to keep those jobs in America. I was a plant operator in utilities (Calpine) and blessed with a good job. I sure don't like seeing our young people having hardships finding work they can support there family on and have that piece of the American dream.
It wont come easy and like me some of you older guys can testify that you will have to pay your dues and work your ass off to get that piece of the American dream. I know that some young people think that when they come out of collage it will be waiting on them my kids sure did and it was a good learning lesson for them. Young people sure have a lot more stuff than Deb and I had. We didn't get our first new car till we had been married for 5 years and our first new home came after we had been married 10 years. Work hard and the dream will be yours I can promise you that your hard work will be rewarded. My friends y'all have a great day.
I have been out of the work force for sometime (retired). It kills me to see our good jobs going to China and other countries because of the cheap pay we could not live on in America. You business men and women what is it going to take to keep those jobs in America. I was a plant operator in utilities (Calpine) and blessed with a good job. I sure don't like seeing our young people having hardships finding work they can support there family on and have that piece of the American dream.
It wont come easy and like me some of you older guys can testify that you will have to pay your dues and work your ass off to get that piece of the American dream. I know that some young people think that when they come out of collage it will be waiting on them my kids sure did and it was a good learning lesson for them. Young people sure have a lot more stuff than Deb and I had. We didn't get our first new car till we had been married for 5 years and our first new home came after we had been married 10 years. Work hard and the dream will be yours I can promise you that your hard work will be rewarded. My friends y'all have a great day.
A friend of mine in Austin was looking for a landscaper. I sent her your email. Hopefully they will contact you soon!What's it going to take? A complete reversal from the direction it's heading right now. We're entitled, too entitled to get our hands dirty and freak out the first time a stream of sweat rolls down our forehead. We've programmed our society to think manual labor is beneath us - something for other people to do.
We're moving toward a dependency crisis in America. We depend on China to keep sending money. We depend on China to make our goods. We rely on Mexicans to build our buildings and roads. We depend on the school, the police and the government to deal with our kids so we don't have to. We have been taken from a society where independence is something to cherish to a position of dependence being the objective.
And we have a leader who's floored the accelerator with it all.
I keep hopping that at some point America will wake up and and change Congress with new younger men and women. What get me is people talk about jobs Americans wont work. I worked those jobs cutting my teeth as a Iron Worker for 20 years. Building highrise buildings and foundation for those buildings. I worked on some of the biggest buildings in Houston. I also built the foundations that those big buildings stood on. They would start 2 stories are more in the ground on something called pan slabs. Nasty dirty jobs at the end of the day you was covered in oil that was sprayed on the pans and slat from all the sweat it covered you from your shoulders to your knees. Then everything changed they started hiring the people coming across the border. American Companies found that they would work for much less than we would work for. That was the end of working construction for most Americans. Our wages were cut and it just continued and our health care soon followed our pay become sub standard. Guys don't pile on to bad it just something my generation of workers had to deal with. My friends y'all have a great weekWhat's it going to take? A complete reversal from the direction it's heading right now. We're entitled, too entitled to get our hands dirty and freak out the first time a stream of sweat rolls down our forehead. We've programmed our society to think manual labor is beneath us - something for other people to do.
We're moving toward a dependency crisis in America. We depend on China to keep sending money. We depend on China to make our goods. We rely on Mexicans to build our buildings and roads. We depend on the school, the police and the government to deal with our kids so we don't have to. We have been taken from a society where independence is something to cherish to a position of dependence being the objective.
And we have a leader who's floored the accelerator with it all.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that!A friend of mine in Austin was looking for a landscaper. I sent her your email. Hopefully they will contact you soon!