On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:14:50 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Bryan wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 21, 7:16 am, John Kuthe > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I am a medical professional Bryan.
>>
>> No. You're not. You merely have the license and degree to be "a
>> medical professional."
>
>Well, that's more than I've got. "Professional" ppl can be unemployed too.
>It's kind of low to pick on someone going through hard times. That's like
>the lifeguard at the beach stealing your girlfriend then kicking sand in
>your face before he walks away with her. >:-o

Thank you Gary. And that's exactly what Bryan has done here to me. No
worries, I'n no pollyanna, I can "take it like a man", but I don't
need this kind of shit in my life, right now or ever.

....

>Any work is honorable work and no one should look down on even the lowliest
>workers.
>From the movie, Caddyshack, "The world needs ditchdiggers."

I agree! Funny you mention ditch diggers though, as when I was a child
my mother used to stress the importance of an education "else I might
become a ditch digger". Today they are called heavy equipment
operators and some can make into the six figure income range! ;-)




>
>The people that I look down on (and I know one) are those that get layed off
>and milk the unemployment until it runs out....rather than go out and find a
>new job. I could have gone on partial unemployment this past winter but I
>wasn't brought up that way. I went out and found my own work to keep me
>going until the company work picked up again.

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I have not since I've been unemployed as a nurse collected any
unemployment.

John Kuthe...