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Old 02-09-2010, 08:43 AM   #1
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OK...will apply and let you know how I make out applying for this NH federal census-taker position.

Considering that I had 25-years at one job involving lots of talking with the public at a retail level, I would most definately be a natural as a census-taker. Plus, I drive a crummy little old Ford sedan with like 11 years and 170-k miles so it's not like I'd be driving into your 3-mil dollar mcmansion in an Audi or a Lexus....... along with an Audi-Lexus attitude...........capiche!

Can someone do me a favor and pull up a link to the actual craigslist listing under jobs-New Hampshire as my links never seem to work....?
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Old 02-09-2010, 09:10 AM   #2
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At least you wont be driving a Toyota at high speeds!
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Old 02-09-2010, 11:51 AM   #3
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28th year in the same company and going strong. I often complain like anybody about having to get up and go to work but I know (deeply) I'm very lucky to be working. Never been laid off in my life from anywhere, always moved on at my own decision.
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"...OK...will apply and let you know how I make out applying for this NH federal census-taker position..."
I had that job, but in Miami.

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I lost 20 pounds, got fit, got a tan, learned some Spanish, earned months of bucks and participated in an important event conducted every decade.

Over time, however, a number of troubling things emerged:

1) At the halfway point, we had a second meeting for any questions or problems with the count. I had physically collected about 50% of my count. The similar region abutting mine was allotted to an elderly New York gentleman, who advised me that he had participated in earlier Census counts.

At this point, I started to panic, because his count was finished!

I also noted his "hospital pallor". Hmmm. Hmmm.

2) The Census eventually apportions Representatives to the House of Representatives; however, the Census' "final count" is estimated!

3) The same source above reports that the count can be fabricated by Census-takers who can skew the count by a million or more.

How? "The Curbstone Guess".

4) I watched with alarm when this year's Census was transferred to the custody of The White House! (Later rescinded).

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"The larger debate prompted seven former Census directors...to sign a letter last year supporting a bill to turn the Census Bureau into an independent agency after the 2010 Census. 'It is vitally important that the American public have confidence that the census results have been produced by an independent, non-partisan, apolitical, and scientific Census Bureau,'..."
In short, Census-takers will have both responsibility and an opportunity:

1) Do the job right will add or subtract Representatives apportioned to each state.

2) Doing the job wrong will transfer power and money to Washington.

Even while employed as a census taker, I had no idea what effect "curbstone counts" could do to US citizen-taxpayers.

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