# No good paying jobs in Noth America?

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**Created:** [December 21, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/no-good-paying-jobs-in-noth-america/111976 "2007-12-21T23:25:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/no-good-paying-jobs-in-noth-america/111976/21 "2008-01-02T21:08:38Z")

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> [@got some new treads for the Blazer](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/got-some-new-treads-for-the-blazer/15400/2):
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> Guys are going from $65k a year factory work into $18k a year part time or temp work with no security and no benefits.
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> You cant buy a home on that, you cant get married and have a family on that, you cant buy new cars on that… and chances are you are going to need some help from the government on that… if you have two incomes at that you are no better off because your kids lose out and you begin to recycle the same shit…because those kids wont grow up to be doctors.
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> America’s largest or fastest growing employers are Wal-Mart, Mcdonalds, among others…  
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Good. There was no reason anyone should be making that kind of money to screw a fucking door panel on an assembly line in the first place. I know someone who was pulling down $125,000 @ Chrysler as a welder with moderate OT. Now this job wasn’t assembly line but rather on-call so most of it was just chillin’ doing lord knows what activities…he quit! Same for a buddy at GM in the US is still topping $120K and jokes about how bad they build them.

Now every automaker employee I have ever met has been totally ruthless with their money and not investing financially or in skills and blowing it on toys. Becasue they beleived their winfall would last forever, it didn’t, deal with it.

The business plan and corporate culture was seriously flawed.

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