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I don't think that Willie's image is quite accurate. It doesn't show the route of guys jumping into the sea.

I thought that was what he was saying, it is hard to fire someone. There has to be a limit to the protection. Now, leaning on a shovel, that is hardly grounds for dismissal.

Dennis, first you get the job then you do those things. Learn bad habits from your fellow employees.

Dennis, you might consider putting in a few exploratory holes in your backyard, looking for Jimmy Hoffa.

I did a little finish carpentry way back when for a brief period.... I recall being on one job where it was supposed to all be union labor, which wasn't the case. One day a new flashy bright red Cadillac convertible pulls up to the house being worked on, and it gets parked in the middle of the...

The US government hounded me for taxes that I wasn't required to pay, and it took a couple years to sort it out, enduring their very frequent threatening letters to my wife and myself. I got it sorted out and they started in doing the very same thing for a later year. I would write to them...

The overall emphasis in society today doesn't seem conducive to doing good work. It once was different. Unless the customer base is the wealthy, people want cheaper and faster, some solution they can get from pressing on their cell phone. The government is a machine that has no compassion...

Getting old seems to require a fight of sorts. There is the fear factor. A guy I worked with a couple days ago, Gobara san, also takes care of his blind and completely bed ridden wife. He can only work when the day care service will take her for some hours, I think twice a week. He has been...

Certain insecurities seem to often come as we get older, part of it is the way society seems to be set up these days, with a lesser respect and support for the elderly. Some of that also seems to trickle over into how we respect ourselves. All I know is that a lot of middle aged to elderly...

If you want to think along those lines, nobody does really.

Figure three years to reinvent yourself, MB, haven't you got three years? There isn't much age discrimination in the US compared to a lot of other places. I even think there are laws against it.

There is that voice inside, and i think it may often start speaking to us quite awhile before we want to really listen to it....for various reasons. Some folks will never listen to it. Maybe that delay is a good thing or maybe it isn't....society has turned us into rather cautious beings, our...