I'm sure loads did John.Retrian for what though?If and when taxi driving turns to shit everything else will too.Truckdrivers and bus driver wages will also be cut.Not many jobs are truly recession proof
Having a taxi car sitting on the drive isn't cheap like it used to be.If I didn't drive a taxi I wouldn't own a car.
Real wages dont go as far as they use to .I had a fella in the car on Saturday I know who he is but cant remember his name .Think he was a Labour TD at one time .He asked how is business I said Surviving .Then he said real wages need to go up and the inside track is Plumbers on some of the Big Sites are voting for Strike action .If its an official Strike then others will not pass the Picket .He said it is not about Plumbers Wages its about Construction wages in General .They never recovered to what they were in 2008 before the Crash 14 years later and most Trades Man are earning less than they did .I asked him if wages go up then costs go up then house prices go up interest rates up so people cannot afford to buy houses so builders will be well paid but Unemployed .His answer was .Thats not my issue ,my issue is getting the Pay Rates restored .
Me uncle was a Brickie use to say lads were building a harness for their backs .Brickies getting a £ a block loved the Forklift and ready mixed mortar kept things moving so they could earn .When they had two labourers per brickie one delivering blocks to where you wanted them and a lad on the mixer everybody got paid .Then one lad on a forks could tend a crew of brickies but the Employers then done away with the £ a block and Brickies got day rate and the Forks driver got an extra few quid in his pocket to make sure the Brikies never went short or had time to piss or smoke .The Taxi is not the worst job out there .
(The reason its the Plumbers that are voting .Plumbers only work on site unlike Joiners or Electricians who can work in Production oe assembly in Factories )
Parkinson's Law = Your expenses always rise to meet your income.
Parkinson’s Law is one of the best known and the most important laws of money and wealth accumulation. It was developed by English writer C. Northcote Parkinson many years ago, and it explains why most people retire poor.
This law says that no matter how much money people earn, they tend to spend the entire amount and a little bit more besides. Their expenses rise in lockstep with their incomes. Many people are earning today several times what they were earning at their first jobs. But somehow, they seem to need every single penny to maintain their current lifestyles. No matter how much they make, there never seems to be enough.
Get used to being poor.
