I would say number three as well, since Mr. Flaherty already is so experienced ...

However my personal favourite for the entire caucus would be this one ...

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

     Will Rogers

kitten wrangler!

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/15/diamond-swallowed-windsor_n_1517...

He could make a career "recovering" swallowed diamonds.

Sort of like the lady with the bag catching the elephant poop?  Yeah I've been following that one too. I  imagine that guy will think twice about doing THAT again.

I would say he should try number 10 for awhile...just because that's more or less what every job in the westernized world, unless you work in trades or as an executive, is starting to look like, imo...it's not just business jobs that more or less look like that these days either. Automated, monotonous, low paying, and low satisfaction. I'm not impressed with whoever came up with the "cattle trough" computer stations, and the office cubicle.or "cube" as they're sometimes called.

no question that there are some yucky aspects to many jobs but the point was that working is better than not working.

And that I agree with.

For all the roofers who work spring and summer and then take EI till the next spring.  and all the other seasonal workers.

It used to be that the guys who mowed lawns in the summer, plowed driveways in the winter. 

The folks who fished in spring, cut lumber in winter.

and so on

lastpointe, I think many of them still do but the jobs don't always balance out.  Fifteen gardens might get laid off - only five get hired for winter plowing.  Technology has changed too - some skills aren't transferable from one seasonal job to another.  And there is apt to be some lost time in the in-between seasons.  My father worked for the railway.  During the summer dry season he drove a 'motor-car' (a motor and a box seat mounted over two axils and four iron wheels) up and down a 40 mile stretch of track, watching for forest fires.  During the winter from freeze-up to spring thaw he was a 'perishable freight inspector', meaning that he carried a sack of coal the length of a freight train, climbing to the top of each insulated boxcar, opening a hatch, and adding coal to the stove that kept the produce from freezing on its way to market.  But in the spring and fall he drew EI  (UI in those days) and hoped to get a day or two now and then working with the sectionmen. 

If suitable work is available a person is expected to take it - one of the questions asked at regular intervails is 'are you ready, willing and able to work'.  If you refuse a job for no good reason (and they decide whether your reason is 'good') you will be cut off benefits.  So if you are driving a pick-up truck doing gardening in the summer, and a job driving a pick-up truck becomes available in your area, you are expected to take it.

And then there are the winters were there is no snow ... like the one just passed.  So there was no snow to plow or snowmobile trails to groom, or the people who come here and generate those great minimum wage jobs like waitress and grocery cart jockey.

I live in a seasonal employment area, winter jobs are few and far between.  Now the government is saying people have to take a job an hour away ... let's think about that...

Again for an area where seasonable employment is the norm guess what else is missing besides jobs ... public transportation.  So now the government is telling us we have to drive an hour in any direction (which in our case is just more areas with seasonal employment) at a $1.30 a litre for a minimum wage job.

Here's an idea.  Instead of attacking seasonal workers - the people Unemployment Insurance (note the words insurance and unemployment) was designed to help, how about the government stop spending millions on useless  legislation  peering into the nations laptops and put that money into infrastructure and job creation in areas impacted by seasonal work.

And am I the only person who finds it just a little rich that a man who has sucked on the taxpayers' teat for 17 years, who is still eligible to to get his 75% pension at age 55 and fly first class is denouncing the poor sod working minimum wage riding an hour in a pickup truck held together with duct tape? 

Not to mention if Flaherty loses his current job he can always go back to chasing ambulances and filing class action suits.

If this were true, I'd be crushed by the irony

     Tony Clement, 2012

How aboot this one?

working on a 1700+ foot tower

Hawk a lugie?

I shared that video with Geo via facebook.

Man I wonder how well they get paid? Thanks for posting.

I got vertigo just from watching it on my small computer screen -- those techies have **** of unobtanium

Another job possibility:  fluffer :3