Cant do it anymore

Hank Hill could get you a job selling propane and propane accessories...

 

Advice : Don't burn any bridges and keep your MVR clean. There is no harm in exploring different avenues of employment. Good luck

 

I'm the guy playing the guy pretending to be another guy!! Funny movie!!

 

My theory is that it's simply corporate greed driving the manufacturing abroad. Like Ford recently announced they are moving all their manufacturing to Mexico. From I heard the American auto workers got paid very well and had worker shortage problem. But why pay an American union worker $25 an hour when a Mexican will do it for $5 an hour?

 

5 an hour plus a 3 hour siesta in the heat of the day.

I am not going to be poltical either and am not going to pick on the mexican.

I am a eyewitness to NAFTA. Prior to NAFTA, Toronto Canada was a city on a hill far away across the land of forest and meadow, what a eyeful of enjoyment to drive there. THEN. (Prior to 1994.)

Fast forward post 1994. Fields, woods and meadows VANISHED. Houses started going up by military rank 10 feet apart all the way to the eastern ridge.

Then the kicker, Ford etc started raising up BIG factories south of there. Remember one american dollar was .60 or so then. That means when I crossed over, it was like a 35% pay raise, I ate like a horse on steak everything and got real strong fast at that point in my life span. 130 to 160 in a few months work up there on that abundant food at 35% off. Most valuable.

But.

Detriot died. They were producing some amazing ####tie cars... citations, escorts etc. It was very fearful how bad these things were coming out of retail. Cavaliers too and others. I stopped being a car owner due to trucking being intense then.

 

Most houses still use oil heat up here.

 

Dang Driver, That was good, HA, HA, HAAAAA.

 

When I was a little kid our house was heated by a coal furnace in the basement. That thing looked like a monster to my four year old eyes. And when we'd get a load of coal, the noise of it rattling down the coal chute sounded like the world was ending!
Then we moved to town, and the house had a old coal furnace converted to natural gas. Another monster, or octopus, but at least we didn't have the noise and mess of coal. That old furnace lasted for many years. Dad didn't replace that until the early 80's...and then died the next year.

Oh man, do I ever identify with that.

Yeah, I had propane in California, east of the Sierras. Then again in Death Valley.

The electric utility that my dad worked for had a coal fired power plant that converted to oil, right before the big, (phony,) oil shortage. I'd spent a couple of months working there as extra labor, but was long gone before that happened. Dad was in third line management by then, and in a totally different department, but he still got ulcers over it!

Lots more involved here than corporate greed! Restrictive government over regulation, "green weenies," and their protests, and strangle-hold unions, have all played a part in driving them out of the country.

I went to a rice rocket for several years there. Had some old dude come up to me as I was getting out of my Datsun, and start railing at me for helping to "ruin the country and cause our Detroit workers to lose their jobs."
He was even less happy when I told him that I'd be happy to buy an American car, if Detroit ever got their collective heads out of their arses, and started building decent, dependable cars again.