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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Here, the kind of work you guys are talking about, shoveling manure from 
horse stalls and dairy ops, landscaping, haybaling etc pays $8/hour to 
cash workers and day laborers.  The only minimum wage type jobs are in 
retail and fast food.  Grocery stores start at $8, too.

People have been migrating south for quite a number of years.  Not only 
do we have multiple seasons, but we have jobs, too.

B

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> No wonder they DON'T come to Tioga Co. PA!! I've been looking for 3 years 
> and can't find even a minimum wage job. I've applied for everything I've 
> found, and there are dozens of other applicants. I'll do anything except 
> work on a dairy farm (way too much work for minimum wage, and a split shift, 
> like 6-10am then 4-8pm)
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
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> From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
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> > Wow, no wonder they are coming to GA.  Here, they make $10 starting pay
> > through temp agencies with benefits.  If they get on in a mill directly,
> > they make a minimum of $12/hour, and more with shift work and overtime.
> >  A lot of the mills get illegals to work nights and weekends because
> > they will, so they end up with 50-60 hour weeks and lots of overtime.
> > Two of my former coworkers and friends made over 70K.
> >
> >
> >
> > Don Bowen wrote:
> > > > Those coming to CA don't "grub for dirty work."  They make lots more
> > > > than
> > > > $7/hr.  Their fake IDs get them construction and landscaping jobs that
> > > > begin, at minimum, $10 and go upwards to $30 plus an hour.
> > > Some but far from most.  Most wind up doing stoop labor in the fields,
> > > picking your organic greens, often paid by the amount picked, rarely 
> > > above
> > > the minimum wage.  Gardeners (the mow, blow, and go type) make upwards of
> > > $10 an hour but many of the larger companies have the people on contract 
> > > and
> > > pay by the job.  Until recently many were in the construction trades. 
> > > Ten
> > > years ago a framer with tools made around $25 an hour, at the height of 
> > > the
> > > boom two years ago a framer with tools made around $20.  Most crews were
> > > heavily illegals and paid in cash.  The guys hanging around looking for 
> > > day
> > > labor are lucky to get $8, good pay is $10 an hour with a meal.
> > >
> > > Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> > > New ruralize pages, follow the link off http://www.ruralize.com
> > > http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> > >
> > >
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Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is 
protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently deployed 
somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean.  Go Navy!
EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA