Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Would a Sane Person Be a Coal Miner?
After listening to a college professor describe what is involved in mining coal underground, I wonder why anyone would do it. Working in an environment with lung-threatening dust, life-threatening machinery, and with potential explosions is not my idea of a reasonable occupation. Working in a crouch or on your knees with 30 pounds of equipment makes the whole scenario seem like the old USSR's gulag system.
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I guess in communities where there are few other jobs, underground mining is the only viable way of providing for a family.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't long ago when a student could quit school in eighth grade and go to work in the mines making significantly more money than his math teacher back at school.