Just had to come back for one more post here about union workers!
Don't anyone tell me that all union/autoworkers are lazy. They are no different than any other entity-some are lazy and some are hard working people! I know-I was there for one summer!
I got a summer internship with GM and threw parts at Central Foundry in Saginaw, Michigan. I have seen more pistons and wheel housings than the average person-I threw them for hours on end! I lost 25 pounds in 11 weeks and ate more calories than our famous gold medal swimmer from the just completed Olympics.
I sweated so badly I needed windshield wipers on my protective glasses and had to shower/change at lunch instead of eat, because my clothes were a ball of sweat. It was 110 degrees in there at 2:00AM on the midnight shift. I crawled in 20 foot pits to clean oily sand and stuck parts in tracking for giant quench pits.
Don't anybody tell me I didn't work! Don't tell me the workers in these plants are lazy! Give it a try before saying a word-you would run for the exits in a day! The auto worker life is a hard physical life-especially in a foundry! I earned every freaking penny I got. Things are likely more automated now. it was a good learning experience and provides real PERSPECTIVE!
Now I also was offered an internship at GMI for when I graduated and turned it down-could not see that life for me! Had a crapload of cash to go back for my senior year in college. All the beer, food, milk and cookies, dancing, and dating I could handle! I gained that weight back real quick! 
I was one svelte dude then! Now I am more spherical in my whitecollar position-typing on a computer more often than not!
Kutz 
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