Most Perilous Jobs
From this
article:
The Most Life-Threatening Jobs1. Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate/100,000 workers: 118.4 - Avg salary: $29,000/yr
2. Logging workers: Fatal rate 92.9 - Avg salary: $31,290
3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: Fatal rate 66.9 - Avg salary: $135,040
4. Structural iron and steel workers: Fatal rate 55.6 - Avg salary: $43,540
5. Refuse and recyclable material collectors: Fatal rate 43.8 - Avg salary: $30,160
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Seems like the only one that is worth the risk is item 3, hi risks for hi rewards cuz if you die, you'll go down in flames and make the news. The worst is item 5, lo risk and lo pay, then if you die, no one knows since you're in the compactor @ the land fill!
It's not how much you make
From this
article:
HSBC found that 49% of respondents with at least $250,000 in income aren't saving more because they simply "want some spending money." In 28% of the cases for those who earn between $100,000 and $250,000, respondents say they do not save more because "something unforeseen always comes up." And in nearly one in 10 situations, people who earn $250,000 or more say they aren't even earning "enough to make ends meet as it is."There's one saying that says, "He who dies with the most toys wins". This is, of course, FOOLISH as Scriptures warn us that "What does it profit for a man to gain the world and yet forfeit his soul?" So the Jacqs, the Tiffany's, the big house, and whatever unnecessary fancies we buy will burn away one day.
I was at a friend's house over Easter and I asked him if he was going to buy a boat since his backyard is on the lake. He said he and his wife decided to forgo the boat so that they can have another kid, #4 that is. Ah, treasure that will make a mark on this earth and make a diff.
Free Paris!
From this
article and other sources:
Looks like there's a petition going round in Cali w/ 10,000 signatures asking Gov Arnold to free Paris. You can see two teenagers protesting here in NYC to free Paris. I'm glad they have the freedom to show us they have a negative IQ. At the same time though, if the next gen is like this then the US is up the creek. Thankfully, we have kids like
Palm Boy,
Rabenstranger, and the gang from
Ambassadors for Christ that will keep us intact.
Activists want chimp declared a 'person'
From this
article:
In a case that could set a global legal precedent for granting basic rights to apes, animal rights advocates are seeking to get the 26-year-old male chimpanzee legally declared a "person." Our main argument is that Hiasl is a person and has basic legal rights," said a Vienna animal rights group.---------
You know we live in an insane world when something like this happens and at the same time there are millions of babies in wombs that are being aborted every year legally. Since this is in Vienna, I'm sure they have more liberal laws in abortion and other things. Therefore, I would say if the animal is suffering as the group claims, then it should be put to death under the right to die law.
A stay-at-home mom: $138,095
According to this
article:
That's the figure in a report by Salary.com, which calculates the wages that would have been paid a stay-at-home mom in 2007 if she were compensated for all the elements of her "job." That total is up 3% from 2006's salary of $134,121.
Mom works multiple jobs and rarely gets a break from the action, working an average of 52 hours of overtime...According to the Salary.com survey, stay-at-home moms work a 92-hour week, with more than half the workweek spent in overtime.-----
Wow! I'm definitely going to look for a stay-at-home mom to be.
