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Vladimir wrote:Just more of the same. Shops and houses, no real jobs being created here...
That is the biggest building I have ever seen. It was massive from the outside and I think it was dug down deep into the ground on the inlside so it was even taller and god knows how long it was.
Anyway I got a good old unnoficial tour of the place. The continuous casting was amazing. I remember the heat and the noise and I think the guy let me work the machine !
I work occasionally with a steel company up in Mossend now finishing pipes for oil wells. Not a patch on what it used to be as the pipes are made elsewhere but still a fascinating industry.
Real mans work!
Vladimir wrote:Its so much more 'heroic' than the buying and selling that seems to be all we do now. No more of the mighty industries of production, the kind of places so enormous and powerful that they really put you in your place as a human being, the individual really a just small part of the giant machine that is mankind and human civilisation... ...
With the best will in the world, Vlad, those places were hell on earth.
Vladimir wrote:I fail to see how working in a shop or office is any more interesting to be honest, sitting on your backside all day passing things through a checkout is really not interesting. Hell on earth they may have been, they still paid better than your average job and employed thousands rather then hundreds of people. This is the age of snobbery when it comes to industry, hostility to industry, people look down their noses no matter which line of production you happen to be in...
Grow up.
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