Thursday, May 05, 2011

Making $1000 A Day

The question was asked yesterday "would you pick cotton for a $1000 a day"?  With record unemployment like we  have now. I think they would have lines a mile long for that much a week. Lots of people say they wouldn't for whatever reasons. I ask them why not? Most Hub employees at FedEx don' t make that in a month. They work rain,sleet or snow. Even those with what would be considered very good jobs, do them for far less. What machinist or steelworker earns $5000 a week? You can't get an education that garners that type of pay.

I know it's easier said than done. I have never chopped or picked one boll myself. I know it sounds like  a bad dream to those who have  seen the monkeys dancing. It only brings back memories of long hot days and very little if any pay. And even then sometimes you owed all you earned to the company store. The fact of the matter is a lot of people made a lot of money off the cotton trade. .It was like the cocaine (cash crop) of the south. That's the difference in blacks and all other minority groups. They would pass up $60,000 yr. in a job that called for overhauls to make $30,000 wearing a suit. If the promise had been kept back in 1865
to give all black farmers, forty acres and a mule  that  they kept.. Today we might  really be looking at some cotton pickers making $1000 a day.

Take a look at  the highest paying jobs. They don't pay $1000 a day:

The top 24 according to the U.S. Department of Labor:

Surgeon: $181,850
Anesthesiologist: $174,610
OB/GYN: $174,610
Oral and maxillofacial surgeon: $169,600
Internist: $156,790
Prosthodontist: $156,710
Orthodontist: $153,240
Psychiatrist: $151,380
Chief Executive Officer: $140,880
Engineering Manager: $140,210
Pediatrician:$140,000
Family or general practitioner: $137,980
Physician/surgeon, all other: $137,100
Airline Pilot: $134,090
Dentist: $132,660
Podiatrist: $111,130
Lawyer: $110,590
Dentist, any other specialist: $106,040
Air Traffic Controller: $100,430
Computer and Information Systems Manager: $100,110
Marketing Manager: $100,020
Natural Sciences Manager: $97,560
Sales Manager: $96,950
Astronomer: $96,780

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

do you have a link the Department of Labor site where these stats are listed?

9:50 AM  
Blogger Common said...

I don't have the specfic link you're asking for. The DOL has hundreds if not thousands of links. Which I'm not about to search. I think I know where you're going though. So here is the link where I got the information. Hopefully this answers your question.

http://www.askmen.com/money/career_150/177d_career.html

11:05 AM  
Blogger Common said...

A shipping department employee at the Nucor Steel Memphis mill died Monday after an accident in an inventory yard, the company said today.

Jerry Buford, 43, who had worked for three years at the plant in Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park, was operating mobile equipment at the time.

"On behalf of everyone here at Nucor Steel Memphis and the entire Nucor family, I want to express my deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Jerry Buford," vice president and general manager Mike Gurley said. "All of us at Nucor are deeply saddened by this event."

Mill operations were suspended while the incident was investigated.

Nucor said it was working with state and local agencies to find out what happened.

Nucor Memphis employs about 350 employees in the production of special bar quality steel.

They don't pay $1000 a day.

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