09-28-2010, 08:44 PM
Doc wrote:
Hmm...
Expenses last time I moved cross-country: Approx. $5,000
Average hourly wage for a migrant worker: $6.14
Average duration of a job for a migrant worker: 5 weeks.
Number of hours that it would take me to work off my moving expenses at migrant worker wages: 815 hours.
Time that it would take me to work off my moving expenses, assuming no additional expenses, a 12-hour work-day and 6 day work-week: 11.4 weeks.
Yeah.
That career-change would be totally worth it!!
I am sure your hypothetical person had to live in Bangor, Maine and has only found a job in San Diego just to buttress your argument. How about CA residents? Why don't they take farm jobs? Could it be, just could it be that somehow they are making more where they are? This is how disingenuous people are flushed out. You could have argued for higher farm wages but you didn't.