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More than you and your entire family most likely. I wasn't afraid to do hard work unlike the young generation of today who is deathly afraid of it for the most part. BTW, picking crabs apart is not what you would call heavy-duty physical labor. There are machines that do the bulk of the work.
No, not for blue crabs, whether in Maryland or Thailand (where the referenced Phillips gets most of its processed crab meat anyway. That was a minor local scandal when that became public a few years ago).
that depends. i worked seasonal positions for fourteen years before i got sick and ended up disabled and on dialysis. the problem isnt finding the seasonal jobs, they are out there by the boatload. the problem comes when coming back home and finding someone to hire you on a temporary basis so you can go back to the seasonal position when the season comes back around.
and during that time, you have to live off what you earned during the season. that means paying rent/mortgage, taxes etc. not to mention the cost of going to the seasonal job, and coming back. and the further you have to go for the job, the more expensive it is. for instance for nine seasons i traveled from tucson to shenandoah national park, a one way trip of 2300 miles. some people can make that happen, others cant.
Most people who work seasonal jobs go on unemployment in the off season if that's all they can do is seasonal work. If all you can do is seasonal work you have no business running up bills that require a full time year round job.
Yes for blue crabs. There are presses. I have one.
I've seen blue crabs being cleaned at operations on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It's all done by hand. And maybe not heavy lifting physically exhausting work but it's tedious and monotonous. I'd bet you wouldn't last 15 minutes.
I've seen blue crabs being cleaned at operations on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It's all done by hand. And maybe not heavy lifting physically exhausting work but it's tedious and monotonous. I'd bet you wouldn't last 15 minutes.
Hey, I've sat down to eat blue crabs and I'm pretty tired of picking them after the 6th crab. Granted, getting paid would probably make me do more, but my fingers usually get pretty beat up from the shells, etc and I can get small cuts. I'm sure they wear gloves, but they does impact some of your dexterity with picking.
Hey, I've sat down to eat blue crabs and I'm pretty tired of picking them after the 6th crab. Granted, getting paid would probably make me do more, but my fingers usually get pretty beat up from the shells, etc and I can get small cuts. I'm sure they wear gloves, but they does impact some of your dexterity with picking.
Most don't wear gloves. The ones thin enough to not inhibit movement would be shredded by the 3rd crab. Shucking oysters, however, most shuckers will wear gloves. I've seen many wearing work type and also those ones that look like thin chain mail (like the deli workers at Giant wear, or are supposed to, when they're using the slicer).
trump's changes to immigration of seasonal workers has left the Maryland crab industry without workers. They have advertised for American workers, but no takers for this tedious work. MD and VA eastern shores of the Chesapeake Bay went big for trump. Now one of the major crab houses is considering moving his operations to Mexico.
Under this same immigrant worker program Mar A Lago manages to get as many workers as trump needs.
But I thought immigrants were taking all the jobs. You mean there's no lines to fill these high paying jobs?
Immigrants?
Do you mean illegal aliens?
Probably not a big population of illegals or legal immigrants in Maryland, USA or perhaps these small business owners run their business legally. Dorchester county has a population of ~32,000 individuals. with an unemployment rate of 5.3, the lowest its been since 2006.
Immigrants?
Do you mean illegal aliens?
Probably not a big population of illegals or legal immigrants in Maryland, USA or perhaps these small business owners run their business legally. Dorchester county has a population of ~32,000 individuals. with an unemployment rate of 5.3, the lowest its been since 2006.
According to the link at least 125K more are undocumented.
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