BF>> You don't seem to have a problem with doing a mans job and I know a
 BF>> female electrician that's good at it so why not you.
 SH>   That's my thought process.   Have some good contacts at the local union
 SH> office as well.

But being an electrician isn't that easy, at least not here. We have to have a
certain qualification for that and that isn't that easy to get.

 BF>> I do some jobs at SAAB and I see those fresh civil engineers with two
 BF>> cell phones, a laptop under their arm and tapping on a PDA and they
 BF>> really think they own GM....
 SH>   They are very important you see, every extra peice of electronic
 SH> equipment they have strapped on their belt makes them an extra $25,000 a
 SH> year. ;)

You seems to understand how it works, at least for a while.

 SH>>>   14 hours in a cab today.  After paying my flat and gas, I treated
 SH>>> myself to a gas station sandwich on the way home.  Broke even for the
 BF>> 14 hours and broke even....?

 SH>   Yep.  Today was only 10 hours as I left early.  I owed the company $75
 SH> on my way out.  Like to see them collect as my hack driving days are over.

Sorry but I don't understand this.

 BF>> Don't you have a law against working that much?
 SH>   Yes and No.  See it's really a 12 hour shift.  Just you go in an hour
 SH> early and if there's a car you take it, and if it's busy at 4:00 and no
 SH> one is waiting for your car you stay out an extra hour.

Here you can't drive for more then 4 (I think) without a break and one after 8
and after having done that for some time you must have one night sleep.

 SH>   I had some drunken idiot try to jump in the window after I started
 SH> driving away with her boyfriend tonight, i bet I drag her 20 feet before I
 SH> knew she was hanging onto the door.  I kicked him out of the cab to deal
 SH> with her, and left them.  That's when I gassed it back up and dropped it
 SH> off at the office and came home.

 SH>   Toooooo much drama out there, and the money isn't good enough to risk
 SH> being shot in the face.

Being in that buisness can't be easy. You do get to see some bad things and
there have been some robberys here too so now most have a camera installed
and the other day a busdriver got a knife in his stomach after a dispute about
the fare.

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