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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33081)	4/14/2008 5:29:06 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

>>fork lift driver<< My first summer after high school I drove a forklift for the Jolly Green Giant, and that's where learned about industrial "scale". The cannery's production was so tremendous that half my job was simply delivering pallets of lids to the canning lines. We filled many a boxcar with canned corn every day ...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33081)	4/14/2008 7:53:36 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217764

Hmmm. You have me beat. I've been a waitress, a bartender, a dental assistant, a surgical assistant in labor and delivery (babies), a social worker, a lithographer, a bookbinder, and a lawyer. Not to mention mother, that doesn't actually seem like work, no matter what people say. Hmmm. I can draft complaints, interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission, contracts, deeds, wills, bankruptcy petitions, trademark applications, appellate briefs, bid protests, etc. I can negotiate, arbitrate, mediate, and try cases before juries, judges, and administrative bodies. Doesn't seem nearly as impressive as operating heavy machinery or constructing a house but it generally seems to pay better. Lawyers never get their hands dirty (speaking literally, not figuratively) and rarely are in risk of losing their lives. Go figure.