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Old December 7th 20, 09:00 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default There's one line that won't be short of drivers...

On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 09:32:07 +0000
Clive Page wrote:
On 04/12/2020 11:15, Recliner wrote:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...up-to-18-month
s-before-the-line-opens-3tfqg5nhr?shareToken=4a6a1b0d9555d782c503924051dda 2d8

It's nice "work" if you can get it. But the job will be a lot less attractive
in a few years time when services actually start running, when the generous
salary is combined with actual work, and on a shift system at that. Some of
them might decide to move elsewhere.


Where would they move to? There arn't many blue collar jobs that pay north
of 60K these days. Deep sea diver perhaps and a few other risky trades but
hardly transferable skills and given what Covid has done to the economy and
Brexit may soon do too they'll probably be thinking themselves lucky to
have any job.