| Do you have any statistics on just how many of these high wage jobs exist? Because I know a lot of people who lack college degrees who would kill for a job that pays over $10/hour. catching your seafood Fisheries around the US are collapsing. It seems like the seafood catching industry is shedding jobs. transporting your food and goods in trucks or moving it off the dock I believe that trucking has been reduced because of the recession which suggests that trucking jobs should decline slightly. resurfacing the asphalt on your street Many municipalities don't have the cash to spend on street repair. putting up sheetrock in the new housing development down the road There's a massive glut of housing stock right now. A few years ago, everyone and their brother was working in construction, building crappy third rate homes with substandard quality and chinese drywall. But then the housing bubble burst and guess what? Most of those sheetrock hackers were tossed out of work. assembling your cars There are actually very few jobs in automotive manufacturing in the US. This sector has been heavily mechanized. Have you seen the financial shape the automotive industry is in? It is heading for a major consolidation. And people aren't buying cars at the rate they once did since they don't have disposable income. This sector is likely to be shedding high wage jobs, not gaining them. |