Alan,

I missed the beginning of this thread - are you looking for home-based work at the moment?

>Hello Jim,
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>>...does it really matter where the person doing the work lives?
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>I agree with you, but you try telling that to employers in the UK. I am always asking companies advertising jobs if there is any chance of doing (at least some) work from home. Almost 100% of the time the answer is no.
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>>When we all have McJobs, neither WalMart (that popularized the trend to China) nor those that followed in their footsteps will have too many customers any more. We'll all be buying second-hand items because that'll be all we can afford!
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>Do I detect a pessimist in our midsts? Or a realist?
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>Regards,
>Alan