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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] police etc.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…I mean I have interviews, they do background checks, and run half-assed personality tests. And people fail those steps.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>…I’m saying those are jobs where I get paid $9/hr. I don’t know or care what the interviewer makes but I can promise you they don’t have a PhD. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…SR Ballard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SR, your post brings up an interesting question I have wondered about.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In our times, we have a lot of uses for customer service call “centers” which do not need to be “centers” in the sense that employees would need to be in any particular place. MicroSloth for example has tech support all over the planet. I have heard that one can request tech support in any language, even the obscure stuff. Not Xhosa perhaps, but Swahili, and Rotokas and that sorta thing. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The county where my grandparents lived and my parents grew up is way the hell and gone out in the Appalachians in West Virginia. Oh mercy, and the reason I mention it is that if one lives there, 9 bucks an hour will provide one with more money than most locals: from their point of view, you have more money than you know what to do with, which is why you aren’t seen out on the front porch shucking corn and stringing beans, the way plenty of them do back in that part of the world: the do a lot of their own food processing at home, starting with garden produce and bulk vegetables.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Those areas are very poor, but safe: you can go thru there and never really feel in danger. The population densities are not high anywhere.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You have posted comments that make it sound like you are struggling. But there must be call-in product support jobs available anywhere, and rural America is anywhere. Homes are cheap out there. This is a common sight: ladies out there coring apples, peeling potatoes and stringing beans. Even more common is to see two or more of them out there visiting and enjoying each other’s company as they work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See that device on the stool in the foreground? Ya don’t even know what that is, do yas? HA! Summer children! Well, OK, I don’t either. I think it is an apple coring machine or a manual particle accelerator or something.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=424 height=370 style='width:4.4166in;height:3.8541in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D64551.3E074660"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Couldn’t one do phone tech support out there? You could buy a house like this one for pocket change.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>