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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

Tvo sent :
> Each layoff or shutdown has its own immediate cause, but nearly all 
> ultimately can be traced to two powerful forces that reinforce each other: 
> global competition and rapid advances in technology.

I totally freaked out when I read it -
at least one (*government* is *also* 
outsourcing *computer* work - on 
what might be called 'sensitive' records
where individual privacy is concerned ....
=================

> Working 15-hour days, Scott Clark (snip)
> So he guides his van along the center of the highway, one set of wheels in 
> the right lane and the other in the left. "Gives me a chance if a deer runs 
> in from either direction," he explains.
> At 51, he's left with only a vague hope of getting off the road sometime in 
> the next 20 years.

At 51, his eyesight and reflexes are fading
and driving down the center lane keeping
to a schedule is cutting down his chances
or getting to be 20 years older ....
===========

In the end, Richmond Works was just a shell. The building still sits vacant 
off the side of Interstate 64 just outside Richmond, a 700,000-square-foot 
tan tombstone in a weedy field.

OK, Tvo - you're the expert - organize a
combination farmer's market/antique sales/
crafts school-demonstration areas inside
and 'green construction'/edible landscaping
outside ....
=============

Provo finally got a job through a temp agency for $8.50 an hour, less than 
$18,000 a year and a little more than a third of his pay at Viasystems. He 
was just getting his life back together when, in November last year, his 
heart failed him. "My doctor told me, 'You've got a choice: You can work or 
you can live,' " he said.

*That* is what melts ole Hard-hearted Hannah
here - it seems to me that a great many good
men *are* their 'work' so how can they 'live'
without it ?

Toni


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At 9/20/2004, you wrote:
>Provo finally got a job through a temp agency for $8.50 an hour, less than
>$18,000 a year and a little more than a third of his pay at Viasystems. He
>was just getting his life back together when, in November last year, his
>heart failed him. "My doctor told me, 'You've got a choice: You can work
>or you can live,' " he said.
>
>*That* is what melts ole Hard-hearted Hannah here - it seems to me that a
>great many good men *are* their 'work' so how can they 'live' without it ?

That is one of the many reasons I am taking what resources I can gather and
hitting the road.  I aged out of my career and have had to piece together
work.  I have a small woodworking and home repair business that is
providing but why waste all that time working?  There altogether too many
books to read and walks to take.

"I guess there are never enough books." -- John Steinbeck
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
can't read them". - Mark Twain
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults
by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go into
your library and read every book." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a
friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean
and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different." - John Steinbeck


Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA             http://www.braingarage.com