yeah BG, I don’t even get that. I hear it but I don’t get it. Technologically, I can keep up with any kid and way more unless he’s a full time geek. Just like you.
Fortunately, in my biz it’s about contacts so even if my biz was to fail no problem for me to get some kinda job.
Texas is doing big business in IT, Medical, Aerospace and big time energy. I think they were the only state net/net gained jobs during the great recession.
legion- I like to believe this country still offers that kind of opportunity too but this coutnry’s situation has changed so much- and its not even the economy or the kinds of jobs it has. It’s also the perception of people- when I’m sending around my resume, I feel like anyone over 40 is immediately put in a “look at last” box- that older people just aren’t hip and happening enough for employers today. I grew up in a multi-generational household- I was taught to respect my elders and appreciate their experience and history.
Today, we don’t think that way. We think people over 50 are upcoming burdens on society.Can’t wait to get into my 70’s at this rate- will hedge funds be making money on organ futures and lifespans of the elderly? Maybe helping them along even? Remember Logan’s Run?
“I’d look at him and say what the hell is that smell? He’d look at me and laugh and say ‘damn, smells like money to me’.
Imagine that happening in NYC? Hell, people complain when their organically raised bees suck up red #2 from the maraschino cherry plant.”
Ugh – well that’s not good either – we certainly don’t want to gain tumors so businesses can expand either….
So which city in Texas is the most bearable to live in – I recall a lot of you saying here that Houston gets realllly gross and humid
I don’t know how to send an email to a phone
yeah BG, I don’t even get that. I hear it but I don’t get it. Technologically, I can keep up with any kid and way more unless he’s a full time geek. Just like you.
Fortunately, in my biz it’s about contacts so even if my biz was to fail no problem for me to get some kinda job.
Yeah, but keep in mind that Texas is far far larger and much less densely populated. There are giant wastelands of industry there.
Remember Logan’s Run?
ha ha,
yes, but today, instead of pulling on the beard of an
old Peter Ustinov,
it’s the youth that have all the facial hair.
Texas is doing big business in IT, Medical, Aerospace and big time energy. I think they were the only state net/net gained jobs during the great recession.
Am I the last person in the world to have figured out how to send an email message as a text to someone’s phone?
g10, this will say it all about Texas.
When I used to be in the marine biz I had an apt in Houston.
Because it’s the petrochemical/refining center of the country.
I had a Mexican welder (a US citizen). Got pretty friendly with him and he introduced me to Texas culture.
You’d go driving down the road in the old Ford F150, and suddenly you’d smell something in the air, some chemical.
I’d look at him and say what the hell is that smell? He’d look at me and laugh and say ‘damn, smells like money to me’.
Imagine that happening in NYC? Hell, people complain when their organically raised bees suck up red #2 from the maraschino cherry plant.
legion- I like to believe this country still offers that kind of opportunity too but this coutnry’s situation has changed so much- and its not even the economy or the kinds of jobs it has. It’s also the perception of people- when I’m sending around my resume, I feel like anyone over 40 is immediately put in a “look at last” box- that older people just aren’t hip and happening enough for employers today. I grew up in a multi-generational household- I was taught to respect my elders and appreciate their experience and history.
Today, we don’t think that way. We think people over 50 are upcoming burdens on society.Can’t wait to get into my 70’s at this rate- will hedge funds be making money on organ futures and lifespans of the elderly? Maybe helping them along even? Remember Logan’s Run?