I need a life
Last night after going out for dinner with one of the women I work with I realized that more than ever I need a life in Rochester. It's hard to start considering living here for a while without putting down any type of roots. I guess I need to start putting down roots, exploring, and stop feeling like a long time tourist but that I live here. I think the first step was accomplished last nigth with this realization, along with finding a cute neighboorhood that I like that has a cute spa that I definately need to make an appointment to. Of course there were restaurants with tables and chairs littering the sidewalks that were very popular (of course the asian food was not as popular as the american pub food and italian food ... *Sigh* poor people in Rochester just dont' know any better).
I heard about/been facebooked by a lot of people from high school, it's still really suprising to me how many people are still in Toledo. I guess I never thought of Toledo as a great place or a place I wanted to stay. Though I guess if you went to school in Toledo, it would be very difficult to get out now, unless you could find a company outside of Toledo. But Toledo is one of those weird places that feeds unto its self. By this I mean that the people are meant to self populate, people move away from Toledo not to it. There's not any major industry to attract anyone. Cars are the major industry, a dying industry at that. The University of Toledo has not done a good job at creating something that they are really good at. They don't specialize in a certain science, their law school is not amazing or anything, neither is MCO, they aren't well known for anything other that mediocre education. Which is really tragic, because it doesn't attract any type of "white collar" industry to the city. Which just makes the job loss to the car industry that is steadily leaving the country for cheaper territory where unions aren't present. The car industry unions annoy me because some people are getting paid more than me, with a bachelor's degree in something that pays well. Unskilled laborers who have no education, can do something a trained monkey can do, and just assemble things all day, are not worth what they are being paid. Overpaid unions are really a problem, because it drives up the price of these items they are making. I am by no means against laborers making a decent wage. But I don't consider a decent wage the same amount as the CEO of their company, as the union workers seems to believe. So if any union workers read this listen up: You're an unskilled laborer, you may think that you should be paid a lot, but you shouldn't. You are a dime a dozen, you can train a monkey to do your job. You should not be making 45-50K a year, you're not worth this. I think it's sick that unions band together to get you that much money. If you want to make more money go to school and learn a skill, then you should get paid more. Assembling things is not a skill, it's repetiation.
Well I should stop avoiding work and do something.
I heard about/been facebooked by a lot of people from high school, it's still really suprising to me how many people are still in Toledo. I guess I never thought of Toledo as a great place or a place I wanted to stay. Though I guess if you went to school in Toledo, it would be very difficult to get out now, unless you could find a company outside of Toledo. But Toledo is one of those weird places that feeds unto its self. By this I mean that the people are meant to self populate, people move away from Toledo not to it. There's not any major industry to attract anyone. Cars are the major industry, a dying industry at that. The University of Toledo has not done a good job at creating something that they are really good at. They don't specialize in a certain science, their law school is not amazing or anything, neither is MCO, they aren't well known for anything other that mediocre education. Which is really tragic, because it doesn't attract any type of "white collar" industry to the city. Which just makes the job loss to the car industry that is steadily leaving the country for cheaper territory where unions aren't present. The car industry unions annoy me because some people are getting paid more than me, with a bachelor's degree in something that pays well. Unskilled laborers who have no education, can do something a trained monkey can do, and just assemble things all day, are not worth what they are being paid. Overpaid unions are really a problem, because it drives up the price of these items they are making. I am by no means against laborers making a decent wage. But I don't consider a decent wage the same amount as the CEO of their company, as the union workers seems to believe. So if any union workers read this listen up: You're an unskilled laborer, you may think that you should be paid a lot, but you shouldn't. You are a dime a dozen, you can train a monkey to do your job. You should not be making 45-50K a year, you're not worth this. I think it's sick that unions band together to get you that much money. If you want to make more money go to school and learn a skill, then you should get paid more. Assembling things is not a skill, it's repetiation.
Well I should stop avoiding work and do something.
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