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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (338280)	5/22/2007 1:09:34 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578564

"That salary hasn't changed in 35 years, but now illegals do it for "privatized" contractors with no benefits." That is the thing that always sucks. When my father started as a watchmaker, the pay was pretty decent. But then it stagnated for decades. By the time I was in high school, it was below the poverty line. Now, he could make $10k or more a month. But he is in his mid-70s and doesn't want to work that much...