Roscoe Wrote:
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> Even a two year degree or two years at a
> community
> college will help move your application up on the
> pile.
> Since the business is on the downturn I'd suggest
> affordable
> college or even a local trade school. Makes a
> person a lot more
> qualified elsewhere when you do get furloughed.
> The folks
> who move up from the very bottom to management are
> far less
> frequent today as things have become a lot more
> technical.
> And why destroy your body doing so.

Definitely something to consider. I was furloughed off the railroad for six years in the 1980s, and had to get another job. I did get one based on my college education--I really hated it, but it was a job when I desperately needed one. Thank goodness I got back on the railroad in 1988, and never had to have a "real" job again.