Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back then that was possible. School was cheap and jobs paid living wages. My father, right out of high school at 18, was working as a stockboy at a local grocery store and actually earned enough to live. That job today pays $8 an hour, which is about half the minimal cost of living for a single man or woman with no children in Fort Wayne (and keep in mind that the cost of living here is very low compared to most of the USA). Not only did he make enough to live, he bought a brand new car and was paying cash for his tuition at IU-Fort Wayne on his earnings! He ended up quitting college because the phone company hired him as a lineman making a lot more money than he would have made as a teacher (which is what he was going to college to be). The lineman job paid him the equivalent of $45,000 to start and he was 8 or 19 when he got that job! Those jobs don't exist for young men today. They're gone. Its all $8 an hour, even for most jobs requiring a university degree here. That's why students are going into debt for school. With college costing what it does, and rents and gas prices and food costing what they do, and jobs paying so little, working your way through college is not possible. I see ads in the newspaper and on job websites every day demanding someone with 5 yrs of experience and a bachelors degree, then the ad says the job pays a "Competitive Wage" of $7.95 an hour. F--k that. My student loan bill each month is more than those jobs pay in a month of fulltime work! -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 3/20/12 5:07 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: >Hi Sonny, > >In the late 1940s, I knew of no such things as student loans. With a >little >help from my parents, I entered college and then used the simple musical >skills I learned in our high school band to work my way into the local >college dance band and a smaller group that played Saturday nights in a >night spot. The earnings weren't great, but they enabled me to get >through >four years and finish with an engineering degree. > >I concluded that, though I enjoyed the music business, I would pursue >engineering as a career to make a living. > >Jim Nichols >Tullahoma, TN USA >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:50 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim > > >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jim Nichols >> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: >> >>> Hi Philippe, >>> >>> My point is that the true masters of an instrument such as a clarinet >>> make >>> it look so easy to produce enchanting music that most of the audience >>> have >>> no idea of the amount of work and practice that it took to get to that >>> >> >> You forgot to add the Parent Plus Student Loans their fathers had to pay >> off. ;-) >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> http://sonc-hegr.tumblr.com/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information