Ricardo

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there is significant chatter that things are about to get very very real tonight in Belfast

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It's not enough to punish the offenders. The collaborators must be punished as well.

Usually what happens is the man that worked his whole life to build up something dies and leaves everything to his wife. Who then favors her own children and writes out the children of the patriarch.

Sucks, but that's how the cookie crumbles.

This is a lesson to all of you. Have a will and be very thorough with it.

That’s when you empty the mag and pistol whip him until he stops twitching.

TL;DR: Go into nursing.

I guess it depends on what you consider, "high paying"?

It would also depend on what the ceiling is for those jobs. Some jobs the floor is pretty low. People quote trade-skill jobs a lot, but it can take quite a while to get into the "high paying" bracket. And frequently those brackets are more or less, independent contractor/business. Which carries a whole slew of issues as well.

That said, if someone is willing to deal with all of that, then sure, electrician can make good money. The problem is that a lot of people don't think of the conditions they'll be working in or that the first few years are pretty menial.

The reason I led off with, "Go into nursing" is that it's not difficult to get into. As long as a person is of slightly above average intelligence, he/she can become a nurse. If that person gets their BSN they will make $30+/hr starting out. With the opportunity to scale up depending on willingness to move or work in more acute environments. Like an ICU nurse with a couple years of experience can easily make $50/hr. Not bad money. Yes, it is frequently "dirty" work, but it's also in a pretty safe environment. And the larger hospital systems have good benefits to go along with it.

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I’ll give a little pushback to “plenty of men living “ to an elderly age… giving the examples you cited are all “men of means” and in no way represent the working class or average citizen of the times… I stand by my statement that there aren’t relative to the population many men living 50+ and beyond in 1776…

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Of course there were. If you survived childhood, you had a very good chance of living into your 60s and 70s (as a man.)

Childhood mortality was close to 50% in the mid 18th century. Maternal deaths were like 1 in 8 over a lifetime. But a young man in his 20s was probably, on average, much healthier than a 20 y/o today.

This notion that you were lucky to live past 50 is missing the big picture. You were lucky to live past 5. After that is was pretty much no different than today.

Abolish the 19th amendment.

Yep. Bookmarked.

This is chick think. That talking about something is the equivalent of doing something.

Wake me up when there's actual accountability.