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Subject: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:28:43 -0500
References: <CB8E6A4A.106CF%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

I agree, Chris, times are quite different now.  This one world economy has 
left the blue-collar worker in the US with very little to find in gainfull 
employment.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim


> 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
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>
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>
> 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
>>>
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Replies: Reply from billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce) ([Leica] Fuji X-Pro1 - Jim)
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