[Publib] The Day After & Librarian's Wages

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In a message dated 11/7/2008 4:18:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
svittitow at gmail.com writes:

Although  this particular post was about fire & police, I've seen this 
attitude  toward the trades and manufacturing as well. My father was an industrial  
carpenter, and I saw how physically debilitating his work was, so this is  
particularly irksome to me. Many of these jobs are not just exhausting,  they're 
dangerous. Anyone who says a hard day's work never killed anyone has  never 
spoken to an OSHA inspector. Nor have they talked to my uncle -- he's  raising 
grandkids because my cousin fell off a roof and broke his neck.  

So you think construction workers are overpaid? Fine -- go get a job  where 
you walk a beam 20 stories up, where you break limbs in falls, where  people 
can get killed on occasion. Electricians make too much? Get a license  and spend 
some time sucking down dust in crawlspaces pulling cable. Or you  could go 
lose a few fingers working in the gas and oil fields. Overpaid steel  workers? 
By all means, go get a job in a steel mill. My significant other  worked as a 
supervisor in a steel mill right out of college, and I think "hell  on earth" 
pretty much summed up his experience. 



Construction work is many times more dangerous than police or fire  work.  By 
the way, I work for the plumbers and pipefitters union; I've  spent two 
decades working for construction unions in various trades.  By  the way, librarians 
can get higher wages whenever they're willing to adopt the  militancy of 
firemen, police officers or construction workers.  
 
M. M. 
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