Is Locksmithing a dead trade for losers?

"dirtbag" > wrote in message
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> I'm a 55 year old mechanical engineer interested in a retirement career to
> earn a couple of extra bucks.
> I have always been interested in locksmithing and in fact over the years
> have learned how lockas work, how to to pick, code and decode cylinders
> and even pick GM sidebar locks, albeit with variable results. I'm no Hank
> Spicer!!
>
> However, I look at locksmithing in the current times as a dead trade
> inhabited with lower class people who have little skills, love for the
> trade but simple people who want to make a buck.
>
> I went to a trade show last year (MLNJ) and it was filled with smelly,
> slimy, moronic people who claimed to be smiths'.
>
> Seriously the stench in the convention center was so bad I had to walk
> outside every 10 minutes or so to get fresh air.
>
> I also heard from several of the exhibitors there that many items had been
> stolen by attendees.
>
> Pretty sad.
>
> So is this what the trade has become?
>
> Toothless, unclean morons in search of a bar of soap?
> Pretty sad.
>
Disagree, last locksmith I hired was cleancut and had all his teeth.
Considering he charged $90 for 25mins work he could afford it.