[Bubba]

When I first moved back to this area in the early '90's after being in the Army then living & working in Oklahoma then Texas, I got a job as a Customer Service Manager at Hasting's when it was still in the Mall($7/hr.). I didn't make much per hour so I decided to go to work at National (then HyPlains Beef) as a cold beef pusher($9/hr.). It was pretty hard work compared to helping people find music or books. But, it paid better than Hasting's and I was young and wasn't afraid of manual labor. I watched HyPlains Beef go from a small company that sent out quartered beef to the company it is today with the fabricated boxed beef going out the door. I worked my way through the newer bigger company to hamburger room making hamburger to Quality Control. I then decided I didn't need the extra money and working in the cold anymore. I then went to work for the cable company in Dodge City which was TCI at that time, which only paid $8.25 per hour. I learned new skills and was then able to get a job a few years later for an Electric company as an apprentice electrician making $10 per hour. Got more experience and my Jouneymans lisence and made more money yet.

My point being, everybody has to start somewhere, if you work hard and learn new skills as you go other opportunities will present themselves and you find yourself moving up. You shouldn't automatically think that working in a packing plant is beneath you.

I think part of the problem now is that the younger generation all want to make $100K per year and they want it right now! I'm starting to get off-topic on my own thread so I will end this post now.