[TheForge] [OT] Re: school waste

[Dave Mudge]

Guys,
All of these OT conversations are interesting to some folks
and I'm not going to ask y'all to stop them, because I feel that
almost any conversation is better than no conversation.
But could you please put a little something about blacksmithing
into each post just to keep EVERYONE happy?

dave m
your list mom.....

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
> John Allen <countrymetals at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Imagine 25 years from now if nothing changes.  Tool and Die will
> > either be worth $ 150 an hour or it will all be subed from china.
>
> I get the Toronto Globe & Mail (aka "Canada's national newspaper")
> weekend edition almost every week and every week there are several
> bankruptcy or similar auctions of fabricators, machine shops, tool &
> die shops, machine tool makers and injection moulding shops.  I'm
> guessing that your China option is already in progress.
>
> > I see that out of 250 people I graduated with, 175+ are computer
> > people.
>
> Ha.  How times change.  Of the 115 of my high school class who
> reported in at the 50th reunion, *none* of those (and exactly one of
> the few others with whom I've stayed in contact) reported computer
> related careers.  I came the next closest: I've grossed maybe $1,000
> in the last 24 years from computer-related work.  One of my
> classmates, though, is a world-class Barbie Doll collector, dealer and
> consultant.
>
>
> - Mike
>
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> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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