Mexico

[indolering]

I am going to mexico to chill for a while. I was wondering about the factories down there. I know they are prob glass sweatshops, but I think working 10 hours straight is kinda fun. My only real concern is that I am only an okay glassblower, who hasn't been blowing for 8 months (fucking kilns! And Bush! And living in Idaho!) and never worked with softglass. Me thinks my chances of getting a job there are fucked.

Any thoughts, contacts, or otherwise?
Indo

PS I totally dig the new forum! To bad we lost shit to EZBoard.

[bc]

getting a job blowing glass in mexico...hmmm...well even though your somewht a noob you still can spin glass an make a product right? The bad news is your talent in mexico pays shit. I would think if you werked an 10 hour day you might bail with $10 US and no, I didn't forget a 0, that was $10 US.

[steven p selchow]

Hope you know spun glass, or animal family sets and like heat and work all night instead of the day, thats reality.

[Joseph Corcoran]

http://www.mexicanlaws.com/Minwages2005.htm

The minimum wage in mexico varies from about $5.00 to $14.00 per hour US.

It's 2005 people, global economy...

:)

[skip]

those are corporate and govenrment jobs more than likely. I doubt sweatshop glass studios are in that average. I live in LA and I know sweatshops here pay shit....Like less than minimum wage in some cases. Mexico's worse. I love Mexico though... Have a blast.....

[harpentuan]

"When I get off of this mountain
You know where I want to go
Straight down the Mississippi river
To the Gulf of Mexico ... " :D

[Joseph Corcoran]

yeah im sure there are sweat shops, but I was just pointing out that "over the table" jobs down there pay as much or more than some places in the US now.

[skip]

for sure man. I actually did not know that.

those are some decent wages for Mexico...

[bc]

Let's put it this way...there are WAY more people in mexico than good jobs.

[David Sandidge]

Look up Danny Salazar or Enrique Gasca in Tecate near Tijuana.

Enrique Gasca
422 Tecate Rd
suite 672
Tecate, California 91980
+52 (011) 52 665 654 3576

I don't think you'll enjoy yourself though. Good luck

[broken glass]

im current ly a pimp in a mexican sweat shop
washing guacomolE

[Royal]

off topic but where you at in idaho?

[indolering]

Sorry, for some reason VB didn't email me, and with my memory...


The minimum wage in mexico varies from about $5.00 to $14.00 per hour US.

Besides, in mexico how many buisnesses do you think are really registered, or correctly account for all their people. I doubt they have a Social Security system there to keep trac of everyone like we do here.


Look up Danny Salazar or Enrique Gasca in Tecate near Tijuana.

They are glass blowers? Should I drop any names?



im current ly a pimp in a mexican sweat shop
washing guacomolE
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Is that a troll, a joke, or what?


off topic but where you at in idaho?
Pocatello, South East. 2 Hours north of Salt Lake, 3 hours from Boise, 1 hour South of Idaho Falls.

Thanks guys/girls, yeah, I know it will suck.

[indolering]

David Sandidge- what kind of operation do they run. Specically soft glass, Pyrex? What are they making, how do they pay (by piece what)... thanks!

[David Sandidge]

Tecate is a town loaded with lampworking families who mostly make boro figurines, a lot of spun work. Many of them are out of work these day for having to compete with the Chinese. In the past, before the Chinese got heavily into it, most of the cheap imports came from there. Most of these people work from home and sell to distibutors like the names that I mentioned in my earlier post. There are also a few factories. I know that some glass activity is still going on there because I get phone calls every now and then from these guys wanting to sell me their stuff. I don't expect that they pay very much and from what I hear, Tecate is not a very desirable place.

[steven p selchow]

An old friend of mine that started lampwork back in in the sixties, Neil Jensen, use to go down to tecate and pick up tons of glass for me when I use to do the mall thing, I know he still gets things from Tony salazar. Some of the exceptional nice pieces are the show pieces, mostly solid animals, but good body design and actually some better than I could do, there around $13.00 and could retail for $50.00 easy, but then again thats all they do, some just make 2 or 3 pieces over and over, so the quality is great, but mostly the knitted glass is sloppy, and not annealed, I fixed a semi load of it once, fixed what I could and tossed the rest out, that was for jerry hall from the glass unicorne.

steve

[indolering]

Well, doesn't sound like I will be doing a lot of blowing mexico.