Posted on 12/30/2016 12:07:12 PM PST by Indy Pendance
For many jobs you need some skills and perhaps experience. Neither can be gotten easily, on short notice. That said most of the young kids in my auto tech classes seem more interested in messing about with their cell phone and goofing off. It’s pretty sad, only a couple really want to excel.
Nancy Pelosi’s daughter once did a documentary where she talked to a bunch of Obama’s sons in line at a gubmiont handout line.
Standing in front of a sign offering jobs, one of his sons told her “I don’t want a job, I want a career”
The problem I have is employers want to pay minimum wage but expect experienced skilled workers to show up.
Now if you’re a kid just starting out, that’s great, but if you’ve ever worked anywhere before those jobs may as well not exist unless you’re desperate.
I'm glad to hear you're working on bettering your situation, but prevailing wages are exactly that; in a way, it is worse in California as the state legislature has planned out what wages will be in 4 years, pretty much eliminating any incentive for companies to reward hard working employees (getting rid of poor performing employees of course will continue to cost more as well.)
After being self employed for the last 4 years, I'm ready to take a paycheck, any paycheck, from an employer and am slashing all my expenses to make even a couple bucks above minimum wage something I can thrive on.
Consider also, if you had a corporate job, a lot of places put in the bin called “overqualified”.
You can’t learn this in college anymore:
Puritan Work Ethic:
“The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”… This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications.
It judges every honorable job to be of intrinsic value, and integrates every vocation with a Christian’s spiritual life. It makes every job consequential by regarding it as the arena for glorifying and obeying God and for expressing love (through service) to a neighbor.”
- Puritan Work Ethic: the Dignity of Life’s Labors
- Christianity Today, October 1979, p. 15
The problem is that so many students have been sold a bad bill of goods. That would be a college education with no particular job skill attached to it, and forever debt.
The solution is to direct more students to vocational training. Even better, go back to shop and other job skill classes in all high schools, so students are actually qualified to do something.
The Education Nazis would not like that.
The snowflakes with instant unemployment degrees don’t want to work.
Their degrees are worthless in today’s world.
He is spot on
I work in agriculture and transport. Tens of thousands of jobs go empty or to immigrants (not even Mexicans any longer - central americans) because Americans simply would rather sit home, or can’t pass a drug test.
Any our nanny-state, based on printed fiat currency and massive debt allow the game to continue for a while longer.
If you don’t mind could you tell me what part of what state?
I have thought about compiling different areas where there is work O’plenty.
In my state i tell young men just starting out, who are not afraid to go where the work is, to go to Allentown,Pa...plenty of entry level warehouse and other work there.
I have heard there is a warehouse hub, simular to allentown, in NC..?
That happens and changes with the forces of supply and demand.
Owners, who take advantage of their workers will end up holding a short stick after 8 years of Trump/Pence.
Of course a few of them will be around forever.
How about this one word.... PARENTING
Always remember that you could go for years should ALL congress critters die.
But you could not go for more than a few days should you need the services of your garbage collector (all of who are more intelligent than Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch), your plumber, electrician, car mechanic, truck drivers, etc.
Oh, and life would be also much much improved if around 98% of the lib arts “profs” out there would quit sucking O2 and assume room temp.
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?pp=&q=&l=WHEATON&radius=15
Illinois\DuPage County - pick any city and surrounding areas.
The above are jobs within 15 miles of Wheaton
They are looking for bodies and when they hire them, they want them to just show up. How sad is that.
I remember the days when I was, just out of high school, in college and just out of college. I was scared to death sometimes that I would not have food to eat or money to spend. I would never ask my Dad for money. He just didn’t have it laying around. Fear is a great motivator. Some of these young folks ought to try it sometime.
Warehouse hubs create a lot of jobs from forklift operators to the other skills needed.
We know a younger guy who moved back from the NW and didn’t want to be in the food business. He got a job in ahell hole that custom crushed grapes and bottled wine for small to medium size wineries. On advice from a friend, he picked up forklift skills. He learned how to handle a crush and bottle it and what not to do.
A year later he interviewed a premium winery for a cellar rat job, the bottom job, and got offered the cellar master position. A decade later he still has that job and is also the asst. wine maker. In the last crush, he not only managed the crush, he ran the forklifts to free up men to do the crush.
His joke to his bosses, is fire me, and I will become a union fork lift guy and let the bosses run the business.
I went to Prep School in Shaker Heights. We had to take Wood Shop, Metal Shop, and Mechanical Drawing.
I wish I had statistics on the mechanics and car salesmen who lost jobs because of Obama’s “Cash for Clunkers”.
I believe more people are on welfare then are working and will pick what is "perceived" to be in their own best interest as to work or not work......but do your own DD
There is a major lack of skilled trades in the US. I was in PA, OH, WV, and TN, and the situation is terrible. I was offering people good work for great pay and still didn’t get any takers.
One way to start down the path to a solution is to change the name of the school from “College Of Liberal Arts” to “College Of Pursuits Of The Idle Rich”. Those liberal arts majors are set for life if they start out independently wealthy, but English and Philosophy majors get jobs only when all of the other candidates are brown or black guys with no education and a criminal record.
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