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Originally Posted by Zeke
Never saw a painter make electrician's wage. I was one for 10 years.
At one time I could make 300/day as a carpenter. It stood at 200/day all through the 80's until towards the 1992 recession. After that, I could make anywhere between if I could find work. Today, I have lowered my rate to 80's prices and I get turned down if there's a immigrant available to work for whatever it is they will take.
I could not have any more contempt for the American public and their attitude towards paying for a job well done by a well trained mechanic.
Most of the idiotic public won't recognize that we tradespersons refer to one another as mechanics. Most of the idiotic public deserves Jack-in-the-Box labor. They wouldn't understand the difference between horsemeat and USDA Prime.
The cabinet maker I used in the 80's had it down: he mandated that people suck.
That's the wages in my area, suck wages. But ass sucking lawyers haven't heard.
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Yep, the working man is getting screwed these days. Not, only are we losing jobs to the Chinese but,we're losing jobs to the foreign competition in our own country. The pay for tradesmen is going to suck for a l9ng time