More dumbing down of the American Youth! Any education is worthwhile and to say it is not is pure BS!
I am a tradesman that went into business and with the business education I did not get made things tougher! Business OJT is not pretty!
“Business OJT is not pretty!”
So true.
“Business OJT is not pretty!”
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Having run a small business of my own successfully in the past I can vouch for your statement. OJT in business can be costly but I managed to make it. On the other hand I said later that if I had it to do over I would find a business manager and I would be the technical guy. The main thing I had to sell was my own technical ability but it probably could have been developed into something much bigger had I not been trying to be everything at one time. I suspect though that the biggest thing causing most small businesses to fail at the time I was running my own business was the propensity of small business people to overspend on personal expenses and not invest in the business. I saw a lot of people trying to “play the role”.
One fellow that I had worked with before starting my business later went into one of his own in a similar product line and struggled along for a few years until his son finished high school whereupon he turned the management over to his son before the boy turned twenty and went back to full time technical work. He told me the business fared much better that way. He said the boy was a natural business man, something that he had never been even though he was a whiz as a technician. His son actually suggested it, came up one day and said, “Dad, there is nobody better than you at the technical end but you are a lousy manager, let me do it.” The last time I talked to him he said he was very happy that he had listened to his boy.