tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post116705148456263897..comments2024-03-28T16:58:02.641+00:00Comments on nourishing obscurity: [downwardly mobile] clever move for professionalsJames Highamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1167148130331914362006-12-26T15:48:00.000+00:002006-12-26T15:48:00.000+00:00Yes, of course there's a difference between train ...Yes, of course there's a difference between train driving and shelf stacking and the latter is hardly a career move.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1167138817243872432006-12-26T13:13:00.000+00:002006-12-26T13:13:00.000+00:00The difference between shelf-stacking and train dr...The difference between shelf-stacking and train driving, however, is that shelf stacking certainly doesn't pay £35,000 a year.<BR/><BR/>Working for 40 hours a week, a shelf-stacker at my supermarket (which has high pay compared to most) could earn £13,500-odd a year. Of course there can be double-time for bank holidays, but working all of them could barely earn you that much more!<BR/><BR/>Shelf-stacking itself is a job that requires a virtually no thought. A sufficiently-trained ape could do it. No shelf-stacker I know likes their job - including those who have done it for nearly a decade - or more! <BR/><BR/>Whilst I can see how at first-glance not having to think in your job might be nice, after a while it becomes monotonous and excruciatingly boring.ThunderDragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09022244110521962876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1167114192532039152006-12-26T06:23:00.000+00:002006-12-26T06:23:00.000+00:00Funnily enough, my brother used to work in local g...Funnily enough, my brother used to work in local government until earlier this year. Guess what he does now? Thanks for posting this, I hadn't realised he was part of such a marked trend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com