[TheForge] Re: help wanted ad

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Mike wrote:
>> This ad ran in Sunday's "The Record" newspaper in northern NJ.
>>     
>
> And it looks like they copied the "job description" straight out of
> the US Dept. of Labor Index of Occupational Titles. 
>
> [Exact title of this tome may vary but it's a big book, now maybe a
> CD, that lists all "acceptable" occupational titles along with a
> description in mind-numbing bureaucratese.]
>
> If they'd used the title "Ornamental Metalwork Designer" [upscale,
> white-collar] instead of "Blacksmith" [downscale, blue-collar name
> for, essentially, the same job], they'd have to do better than $10/hr,
> eh?
>
>
> - Mike
>
>   
I have a late forties edition of that book in the guest bathroom.   
Reading it is a fascinating, with some truly bizarre occupations in it.

Charles