On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:35:18 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 12/9/2018 7:45 PM, wrote:
>
>> In the US any youngster learns a marketable skill; like welder,
>> plumber, carpenter, and the like will never need to bitch about their
>> pay. My long time friend is a master electrician, he holds classes so
>> youngsters can get their license. No one is starving, far from it.
>>
>
>Yeah, but electricians sometimes get their hands dirty.

Electricians get their hands dirty every day, so dirty in fact that no
manucurist can make their hands presentable.

>I want to
>study 4th century Greek sculpture and make a lot of money to pay off my
>huge student loans. .

You'd need to be able to lick your eyebrows.

My electrician friend has been married a very long time, more than 50
years to a very attractive Irish lass and they managed to raise five
kids, four girls, one boy. He's nothing much to look at, he wasn't
much to look at when I met him in '78. She never worked at a paying
job, didn't need to, my friend made a good living. Maureen worked at
raising kids and taking very good care of Joe S. Kids are all grown,
girls have families of their own, Joe Jr works as an electrician with
his father. Joe doesn't do much physical work anymore, his eyes are
failing, in fact his son has to drive him everywhere, out to job sites
and to perspective jobs to do estimates. Joe has had his own
contracting business now for more than 30 years, he employs a half
dozen electricians. He's a workaholic, he can easily afford to retire
but I doubt he ever will voluntarilly; he's on the phone all day
working up estimates and purchasing equipment for jobs, evenings he
teaches getting youngsters ready to take the electrician license test.
These days he takes on mostly commercial jobs, he has no time to add a
recepticle in someone's home kitchen.