Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Gob-Smacking, Sometimes

The NY Times ran a story about the reluctance of men to take jobs in traditionally-female occupations. As part of the story, they said this:
The two occupations predicted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to decline most quickly from 2014 to 2024 are locomotive firers, shrinking 70 percent, and vehicle electronics installers and repairers, down 50 percent.
True enough, but when you go look at the actual numbers, there are only 1,700 locomotive firemen left, and that's projected to drop to 500.

I would suspect that almost all of that drop will be by attrition. The job of fireman went away from the major railroads ages ago.

More to the point: A job classification that employs less than two thousand people nationwide isn't even a rounding error in the category of employment statistics.

2 comments:

Nangleator said...

Leave me hanging on the employment status of jug band jug blower, will you?

J4rh34d said...

I've noticed that when a male-dominated high-paying occupation is "devalued" by mechanization, then women are allowed to do that occupation. Two examples from decades ago - men's knitting guilds/knitting machines and male secretaries/typewriters. (I knit, BTW.)