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...served the mostly rural, blue- collar district ever since as their Republican Congressional representative...
They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...looks as if Major General Larry Smith may never stick another star on his collar. According to official reports, General Smith, who is accused of attempting to kiss and fondle Lt. General Claudia Kennedy in 1996, is no longer poised to take over the post of deputy inspector general - a job that, among other things, would have required Smith to handle charges of sexual misconduct within the ranks. Kennedy's accusations, which were substantiated by a recently completed Army investigation, brought Smith's career to a screeching and very public halt; his presumed ascent to the inspector general's office...
...these forces are liberating. Blue-collar robots took the grunt work out of factory and warehouse and dockside. The same will happen to white-collar work. Just as workin' the line at U.S. Steel was no walk in the park in 1946, passing papers in the tower is no great joy. My dad did it for 41 years at the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say, a white-collar indentured servant...
...deeply committed to her self-designed, do-it-from-anywhere-with-anybody "career" path. She is relieved, by the white-collar robots, of 95% of the drudge work...and is adding value by being on the tippy top of her intellectual game. Her only security is her personal commitment to constant growth and her global (virtual) rep for great work...