After I graduated from
college I went to work for a container producing company. We were working on
qualifying steel from overseas to use in producing containers. I remember
asking if we buy supplies overseas where will people in this country get jobs to
buy the product packed in the containers we produce.
Of course there is another
side to this story. I also remember how much the union rules interfered with my
doing my job by not allowing me to write the various codes on the containers I
used in my research. I had to stand over a union worker to make sure he wrote
the correct codes on each container so two of us were required to do a job that
should have taken me half the time to do alone.
When I was unemployed for
several months and much younger I put on a short shirt and tended bar. A few
weeks I made more money as a bar-maid then in my technical field. I also worked
as a waitress to support my kids while I looked for a job in my field. I even
jumped from the consumer field to the aerospace field with about a 10% reduction
from my last job. I collected unemployment when necessary but never stopped
looking for a job. But then I'm from another generation, not that of the
current.
