The job no one wants: young people won't work in logging
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The job no one wants: young people won't work in logging
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#2> “Logging is difficult, dirty, dangerous, and declining.”
> Death or injury “can come from trees falling in the wrong direction, or hitting another tree and falling back on someone”, he said.
Stupid millennials, how could they resist a dangerous job that is also in decline?!
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#3> “Logging is difficult, dirty, dangerous, and declining.” > Death or injury “can come from trees falling in the wrong direction, or hitting another tree and falling back on someone”, he said. Stupid millennials, how could they resist a dangerous job that is also in decline?!
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here?
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#4maybe the industry should pay young people more for their labor...
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#5maybe the industry should pay young people more for their labor...
$18 dollars an hour for arguably the most dangerous job in the country. That doesn't seem like a great deal to you?
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#6Lower worker supply because the job sucks? Increase wages. Capitalism!
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#7> Now, fellers can earn as little as $18 an hour.
So they get paid a little more than someone serving burgers in California but have to deal with much more remote, skilled, difficult, dangerous work. I'm getting really tired of articles posing this sort of thing as a "labor shortage".
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#8> Now, fellers can earn as little as $18 an hour. So they get paid a little more than someone serving burgers in California but have to deal with much more remote, skilled, difficult, dangerous work. I'm getting really tired of articles posing this sort of thing as a "labor shortage".
They would have a significantly lower cost of living. So they should be able to save much more.
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#9This sounds like yet another market problem being blamed on "millennials". If you pay enough I'd imagine some people would take the job. If you can't pay enough, then I guess the market is speaking to you about the long term outlook for logging.
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#10This actually looks like my ideal job, if only it pays a decent wage and you do everything with the machines.