So time has passed, my hand is all but healed.
At the moment I'm reading Generation Debt by Anya Kamenetz. there's lots of numbers and consumer groups and survais. It's kind of like 'the millionaire next door' which I re-read a year or so ago. Any ways what made me write here is the chapter I just finished was called 'low wage jobs and it got me thinking about alberta. In the united states all sorts of people with BAs, BSCs, what ever else can't get jobs they have trained for my favorite coffe shop worker for example. In alberta those jobs can't find any employees, there are no greators at wallmart, no-one walks the store, it's JUST managers working the cash registers. Tim's have to close down branches because they can't hire anyone to make coffee. When I first heard about this from someone I went to school with, I wondered if an ecomomy could collapse at some point because there was no one to work those kinds of jobs? or would it evolve around it, have everyone, shop at costco, cardlock gas stations, make their own coffee and lunches, fix their own cars, reno their own houses, as the rigs and industry progressivly suck up all the people from other jobs.
The contrast was really interesting to me.
On another note. I managed to sit down and write around 800 words on my novel, the down side being that I had to take 600 out for continuity, still It's better and longer now.
At the moment I'm reading Generation Debt by Anya Kamenetz. there's lots of numbers and consumer groups and survais. It's kind of like 'the millionaire next door' which I re-read a year or so ago. Any ways what made me write here is the chapter I just finished was called 'low wage jobs and it got me thinking about alberta. In the united states all sorts of people with BAs, BSCs, what ever else can't get jobs they have trained for my favorite coffe shop worker for example. In alberta those jobs can't find any employees, there are no greators at wallmart, no-one walks the store, it's JUST managers working the cash registers. Tim's have to close down branches because they can't hire anyone to make coffee. When I first heard about this from someone I went to school with, I wondered if an ecomomy could collapse at some point because there was no one to work those kinds of jobs? or would it evolve around it, have everyone, shop at costco, cardlock gas stations, make their own coffee and lunches, fix their own cars, reno their own houses, as the rigs and industry progressivly suck up all the people from other jobs.
The contrast was really interesting to me.
On another note. I managed to sit down and write around 800 words on my novel, the down side being that I had to take 600 out for continuity, still It's better and longer now.