go to the job for "Dental Hygienist" in the article and see what it says about the fair state of Washington!

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-big_bucks_without_big_debt-550

okay, so it's not ceo pay, but it's kind of ridiculous

Being a banker ain't half bad.

My sister is a Dental Hygenist, in McCleary.

As far as social standing here in Grays Harbor County she is at the top: her truck is like Bigfoot.

I always have to remind her not to drive over my Corolla.

so you have the choice to become a dental hygenist or bitch about them....what's it gonna be

Dental hygenist earn every penney...you couldn't pay me enough to work on peoples mouths all day.

Yep. They aren't all pearly whites.

Those girls have to clean the pus out of abcesses, deal with gum, lip & mouth cancer, necrosis (gangrene), alcoholic halitosis, patients grabbing their tits, violent prisoners in for mouth trauma from fights, and being in a workplace full of women, which is by far the worst.

They went to school, learned a trade, and deserve the money they earn.

The girls are priceless. They do the stuff that no one wants to do and believe it or not.....getting accepted to a program is not as easy as you think. They are worth every penny.

Yeah I was going to say something too, but I was being polite because Rocket seems okay to me.

It still seems out of line, or at least a real eye opener. Remember when the "dirty jobs" were the worst paying?

Corollas are the official vehicle of bad motherf%ckers worldwide.

docspud has nailed it. Getting into hygeniest school is really hard. Sis had a 4.0 GPA coming from a J.C. and had to apply to like 15 different places.

They do a good job of keeping themselves in high demand.

You can grab their tits? Dang I haven't learned anything in 42 years.

I missed the same memo....

He's a funny bad motherf*cker, too.

Don't let Rocket fool ya. That Corolla comes equipped with a bait fridge, fish box, 6 extra rods in case you break one, laptop, smoke screen, retractable machine gun, and you should see what's in the trunk.

Her truck is the baddest in town.

RR brings hookers to the river? Dood we need to fish!

Dave, don't you have better things to do than deal with ANOTHER dead hooker ??????

I still think that was one of the funniest comments I've ever heard.
I pull up at the dock at Neah Bay. We have cooned the fish that day. I think we had a limit of everything you could fish for. There was blood everywhere.
I end up meeting TJCarol for the first time. He says "How many hookers did you kill?"

my truck gets washed every couple weeks, waxed and vacuumed.

the corolla goes on high speed runs to the river down logging roads and jeep trails. used to be afraid of that stuff until i looked underneath...i bet i could run over a land mine in that thing and keep driving it.

it's gonna be carrying my ass up to tacoma in a week or so, being that our parent company's CEO just gave himself a million dollar bonus and decided to shut down the olympian.

Thank God.

SIDE NOTE--Great Grandfather's stepdad ran the competition with The Daily Zero until it was bought out by The Zero's owner. During that time, while my Great Grandfather worked as a printer's devil, he held a side job as a Western Union Telegraph Boy by bicycle and helped wire together Olympia's first Telephone switchboard, which was only a piece of plywood with some nails with copper wires wound round each one. The man later went on to invent the coin-op binoculars and a series of steam valves for coal-burning navy ships.

We talkin old money here? That is pretty cool Irie. Daily zero, what a joke. I am a bit of a liberal on some issues....but that paper makes me sick. I wonder if we know each other....Oly high for me...class of..back in the dim time.

well, the daily zero isn't going anywhere...it's "just" being printed in tacoma. the paper's basically been the TNT-light for about 2 years now. tends to happen when big corporate orders layoffs in the newsroom and everything becomes copy-pasted from the USA today we print earlier in the evening and the tribune and AP.

while i've never thought it was an outstanding paper, i've never been able to figure out why it's so hated by conservatives and liberals alike. of course it's going to have a liberal slant...look at the demographic of olympia!

i guess i'm just a little bitter...one of the most historically steady jobs out there dying out, kind of ironic to be looking for another printing job on craigslist...

After that paper was bought up they moved to Ballard. Would have been around 1905-ish.

My brother works for The Seattle Times and his wife for the PI. All print journalism is laying off and cutting back as it drifts into obsoleteness.

One reason the Zero is hated so much is because it is totally spineless. It only endorses incumbents, regrdless of party, it takes the police version of events as gospel, even when their own reporters get beat up; ie: when some bum gets tasered repeatedly by the OPD and dies on the spot, they accept the claim that he died of natural nauses (true story) and writes editorials bashing anti-law enforcement conspiracy theorists. In essence they are just a Local Government & Business Establishment Shill along the lines of "Praise Stormans Inc.! We hate all other grocery chains!" And "We need to run Lakefair Haters outta town!" Also: "Regardless if that IT Bus blew through that stop sign, that motorcyclist was on crack and so it wasnt IT's fault they got smeared."

Half the time they dont even print alot of the stuff that's happening around town, especially if it might make police, fire & city hall look bad.

Then again, they aren't nearly as bad at The Chronicle, which won't even publish pictures of blacks or Mexicans.