This is something I've been pondering over the past couple of years...

I'm an old fart, been working with glass for 19 years, almost all production (strictly production for the past 5 years).

Over the past 19 years, production glass wholesale prices have stayed the same, or decreased. During this time the cost of supplies, oxy, and propane have increased 4-5 times what it was when I started. Chinese glass is even more than what Pyrex was when I started working with glass.

I'm at a point that working a 9-5 $12/hr job would be the same as working 50+ hours a week with glass will bring.

Just wondering if I'm the only one thinking the same.