thre are thousands of job shops in this country, and many are looking for those who are CAD and APT proficient and/or can set up and run CNC machine jobs...Will check into this. My husband worked at a heavy manufacturing for decades. Certified as welder now even.
Sadly, have to move to CHICAGO????
Ugh. But desperate times calls for desperate measures.
Do people use Linkin to make networks for blue collar jobs? If not they should. Or someone should start a blue collar version of it.
$Million idea there folks.
I have been telling the high school kids that if they learn how to operate the new computerized lathes and milling machines they will find good work immediately.
Also... I have to express BS detection in this cheerleader CNN article.
But hoping for the best.
This is good but I’ll bet these jobs don’t pay very much.
My mom was a teacher (a good one) for 25 years. It was apparent to me that more than a few kids she was teaching were going to college because it was ‘the thing to do’ when it would better serve them to go to a technical school to learn a skill. It used to be that a college degree opened doors that led to good, high-paying jobs. A college degree is no longer as much of a guarantee as it was ‘back in the day’ ..... having a ‘working with your hands’ skill has been something our society has been losing, to our detriment.
The student they show won’t have any trouble getting hired.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2012/03/14/smallbusiness/trade-schools/female-manufacturing.top.jpg
I assume that ‘22’ refers to her waist...
Seriously, women do very well in these jobs and are treated well by their coworkers.
My cousin years ago got “accidentally” on the college waiting list as he claimed he paid and submitted the proper forms and grades to get to college. The registrar told him to get lost..
Pissed off, he wanted to study in the fall and looked for schools. He found PLUMBING in the adult education center. He never looked at himself as a plumber but tried it.
Years later, he holds the contracts for the top condominiums in the downtown area and makes more money than his university-education liberal brothers.
Not a homeschooling article, but this could be the beginning of something positive. It indicates an alternative to the useless high schools we currently have.
This mirrors my recent thinking. There are so many kids with degrees who are lucky to find a job in retail, even. A friend’s daughter has a master’s in the Japanese language (!), and is currently going for her doctorate, working part-time at our community college, and living at home. I wonder if she will ever stop being a student and be able to earn a good living.
Meanwhile, as an opposite example, our long-time auto mechanic owns a VERY thriving garage-—it’s growing constantly-—and is rumored in the community to be a millionaire. Yes, he gets his hands very dirty during the day. But he cleans up well, and if you happen to see him out in the evenings, he looks like any other well-to-do gentleman. Plus, if the economy ever collapses, he’ll have an in-demand skill that can be used to barter.
It’s really too bad kids think they’re too good for blue-collar work.
The main problem is boys and modern life. When I grew up boys were building model airplanes in their youth, working on cars (hot rods) in their adolescence, and by young adulthood were quite capable with their hands. They could move into a manufacturing job with ease, and there were lots young guys to fill them.
Today kids don't build anything. And cars are almost impossible to work on - not to mention that hod rodding is financially unreachable for most kids. As a consequence, trying to find someone that even knows which end of tool to pick up is difficult.
And I can't say for every field, but I can assure you that in aviation, someone that is REALLY good at sheet metal will be paid as much as a entry to mid level engineer. A move might be required, but there are companies paying BOUNTIES for top quality sheet metal people. As kids grow up less and less quipped to use their hands, I only expect that increase.
Chicago, home of the Obama crime machine. CNN, the home of any lie that helps Democrats.
Not picked up dummy, baby boomers that can afford too are retiring.
I can believe this, because they're learning employable skills that can help a company make a profit.
As opposed to those liberal arts degrees that college students are getting to debt for $80,000+ for.
thre are thousands of job shops in this country, and many are looking for those who are CAD and APT proficient and/or can set up and run CNC machine jobs...bttt
Well, after finding the following list, I take back everything I have said. Obviously we have no need for people that can fix things. What will propel us into a leadership role in the 21st century is people that have skills in these crucial subjects:
1. “The Phallus”
Occidental College. A seminar in critical theory and social justice, this class examines Sigmund Freud, phallologocentrism and the lesbian phallus.
2. “Queer Musicology”
UCLA. This course welcomes students from all disciplines to study what it calls an “unruly discourse” on the subject, understood through the works of Cole Porter, Pussy Tourette and John Cage.
3. “Taking Marx Seriously”
Amherst College. This advanced seminar for 15 students examines whether Karl Marx still matters despite the countless interpretations and applications of his ideas, or whether the world has entered a post-Marxist era.
4. “Adultery Novel”
University of Pennsylvania. Falling in the newly named “gender, culture and society” major, this course examines novels and films of adultery such as “Madame Bovary” and “The Graduate” through Marxist, Freudian and feminist lenses.
5. “Blackness”
Occidental College. Critical race theory and the idea of “post-blackness” are among the topics covered in this seminar course examining racial identity. A course on whiteness is a prerequisite.
6. “Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration”
University of Washington. This women studies department offering takes a new look at recent immigration debates in the U.S., integrating questions of race and gender while also looking at the role of the war on terror.
7. “Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism”
Mount Holyoke College. The educational studies department offers this first-year, writing-intensive seminar asking whether whiteness is “an identity, an ideology, a racialized social system,” and how it relates to racism.
8. “Native American Feminisms”
University of Michigan. The women’s studies and American culture departments offer this course on contemporary Native American feminism, including its development and its relation to struggles for land.
9. “’Mail Order Brides?’ Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian Context”
Johns Hopkins University. This history course — cross-listed with anthropology, political science and studies of women, gender and sexuality — is limited to 35 students and asks for an anthropology course as a prerequisite.
10. “Cyberfeminism”
Cornell University. Cornell’s art history department offers this seminar looking at art produced under the influence of feminism, post-feminism and the Internet.
11. “American Dreams/American Realities”
Duke University. Part of Duke’s Hart Leadership Program that prepares students for public service, this history course looks at American myths, from “city on the hill” to “foreign devil,” in shaping American history.
12. “Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism”
Swarthmore College. Swarthmore’s “peace and conflict studies” program offers this course that “will deconstruct ‘terrorism’ “ and “study the dynamics of cultural marginalization” while seeking alternatives to violence.
Takes 3 weeks to train for professional truck driving and some trucking outfits will pay to learn. Worked for me. Good money can be made.