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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] i have some questions and comments about this one:



Here in the States, we called him Billy...

-L

--- "Michael B. Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu> wrote:
> First of all, it must not require much to do this particular job.
> Obviously, the gentleman named didn't have any immediately relevant
> experience or training.  Second, I wonder where one applies for 
> such a job? 
> 
> The third and most important thing is that I know exactly how
> he feels about the situation of unemployment.
> 
> Doesn't Nemo appear on the PSUBs gallery?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Schroeder's Brother Finally Lands a Job - Abroad 
> 
>               Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001 
>                                                      
>  
> BERLIN (Reuters) - Amid rising unemployment in Germany, the
> half-brother of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has finally
> found work at a Spanish theme park after six jobless
> months, a German newspaper reported Thursday.
> 
> Lothar Vosseler will take up a job as a tourist guide on a
> submarine moored off the Spanish island of Majorca,
> Cologne-based newspaper Express said Thursday.
> 
> Vosseler, who lost his previous job as a sewage worker in 
> June, will be taking up his post at the Spanish theme park
> in March and told the Express he hoped to be able to invite the
> chancellor aboard in the summer.
> 
> "I'll be showing tourists around the Nemo submarine at
> Majorca's Waterworld. Thirty meters (yards) under, you
> can see shoals of fish and shipwrecks from the 22 portholes.
> It's great," Vosseler was quoted as saying.
> 
> Schroeder, 57, and Vosseler, 54, have the same mother.  She
> remarried after Schroeder's father was killed in World War II.
> 
> Germany released data Wednesday showing unemployment
> rose in November to 3.79 million and experts said they 
> expected the level to push past 4 million this winter, well
> above a 3.5 million goal Schroeder set his government.
> 
> Vosseler, whose son also lost his job recently, summarized part
> of the problem.
> 
> "In Germany nobody wanted me," he said. "If you're over 50,
> you feel unused and shoved aside."


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"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
             - Yogi Berra
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