[Carthego delenda est]

“Chicago sits astride the traderoutes of the continent and it continues to be a great manufacturing center.”

Cringing Negativism Network would like that statement.

“The problem consists of having too many bad people”

Well maybe just the wrong people.

Snip:
“After years of declining employment in manufacturing due to off-shoring of jobs, good positions are actually going unfilled due to an insufficient supply of skilled workers,” said Randy Blankenhorn, CMAP executive director. “The shift to technology-intensive advanced manufacturing is creating new opportunities for businesses and workers here in metropolitan Chicago. Our report shows that today’s factory jobs often require not only math, reading, and critical thinking, but increasingly also call for workers to understand materials, physics, chemistry, engineering, or computer programming. As a region, we must bring community colleges and other training providers together with employers to train workers to fill these demanding — and rewarding — positions.”

http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/press-release-2-26-13/

Let me rephrase my original statement: “NO BLOOD FOR MANUFACTURING!”

[muawiyah]

hmm ~ did you realize that if you recruit among BFA degree holders with majors in painting or sculpture (lot of overlap in course content) you will get young people trained in all of that ~ plus the computers, plus the graphic control programs, plus welding, plus steel casting, bronze casting, silver castsing, plus ~ they can read color coded wires and that's just about the only thing you need to add to what they already know.

Leonardo d'Vinci was, of course, a painter, a sculpter, and an engineer ~ he invented the nut and bolt!

Too many inartistic people imagine the visual arts to be just a matter of knowing how to use photoshop ~ which is why they have no idea where to find the talent for those jobs.