Reply #60: No way! [View All]

[rockymountaindem]

I thought these were the kinds of jobs "American's wouldn't do"!!!

Wrong. These are the kinds of jobs Americans won't do for starvation wages, but we will do what we have to if it will provide a decent living. Look, I don't want to make myself into someone I'm not. I'm the son of a middle-class (arguable upper-middle class) professional, who has never had to worry about food, housing etc. I count myself very fortunate in that regard. But I like to think that this is not just a country of suburbs and mini-malls. This is also a country of lumberjacks, firemen, police officers and crop-duster pilots. All those are dangerous jobs, but Americans line up to do them because they pay a decent wage. If Americans are willing to risk life and limb as long as it pays well, I'm sure we're also willing to take on a job at the chicken cannery as well, as Ms. Bell proves.

Has anyone else seen the TV show "The Deadliest Catch"? That has given me a lot of appreciation for the working man (and woman). Here we see people working in the most miserable conditions imaginable, risking death by drowning in the Bering Sea, and dismemberment by their own equipment, and why? I saw some of them get a $11,000 check for less than a week of operations. I'm very impressed by those crabbers, to say the least.