So who hopes to one day become a US autoworker or banker?

[Crazy Dave]

I remember when being a US auto factory worker was the job of all jobs and maybe still is. But is it worth it knowing you can be making $800 or more one week, then permanently unemployed the next?

Unless you're at a US Honda or Toyota plant maybe

[whistle]

1. Almost all U.S. manufacturing jobs today are in bomb making and military weapons

[Crazy Dave]

2. For now

It won't take long for US defense contractors to start outsourcing jobs in the name of profits vs. national security

[notadmblnd]

3. My husband was an auto worker and he never brought home an 800.00 paycheck

I don't know where people have gotten the idea that auto workers are a bunch of uneducated fools pampered in their jobs by unions. We were together 20 years and there wasn't one year that he made more than 50k or suffer a layoff.

[Crazy Dave]

5. Maybe he should have built corvettes

My wife's uncle worked at the Bowling Green assembly plant for 20 plus years and made over $60k a year. When he retired his combined pensions made him earn more than when he worked. About $80k a year then.

[Lefty48197]

4. A whole lot of communities in Michigan were built using auto workers' wages

Even the imports have problems today. Just about one year ago, Toyota announced with great fanfare the opening of a new plant in Texas that would build full sized pickups. Oops.

[readmoreoften]

6. Yeah, now there's a question you don't get asked much.

Let's see. So long as by "banker" you don't mean "bank teller" or "local branch middle manager" but, you know, someone on the inside of the banking system. A child of a banker who is encouraged to continue in finance will not be likely to work at the GM plant. The child of a GM worker isn't likely to become a captain of industry.

[onethatcares]

7. my dad worked for gm for 31 years, UAW in a Dana Plant

retired with a great pension and benefits that covered both him and my mom. She used to say, "as long as there's a Dana plant somewhere on the earth, dad will have his pension". Guess what?