Posted on 07/14/2005 7:00:15 PM PDT by bayourod
I agree about getting experience first. However, there are some businesses such as Subway franchise that a high school grad can manage with a parent watching over his shoulder.
As far as starting their own business, the failure rate is so high that you can't get an SBA loan right now. Most businesses fail because they are under capitalized, but to sink too much money into a start up is more risky than a trip to Vegas.
A good start up business is a hand car wash in an area where the cars are too expensive to be run through an automated car wash. If the business catches on the profits are astronomical. If if doesn't you've just got a few buckets and towels to pay for. Buy the property and include paving, covered area, a small office/waiting area and signage in the mortgage.
Y'old meany. LOL!
Here's wishing you good luck in your job search. Kudos to you for getting more education. You're on the right path, friend.
Maybe FR needs to start a new kind of post, ala the Smoky Back Room, listing the kinds of jobs available in different parts of the USA.
It's obvious from this thread that there are jobs available in different parts of the country, while many of us are unemployed.
Let's start it!
I think perhaps you have confused cause and effect here. Companies are going elsewhere because our workforce is "uneducated, disloyal, and incompetent," not the other way around.
You may be right that high school kids do not want to go into debt to prepare for manufacturing jobs. But that does not explain why they do not learn math and science (or something worthwhile).
I think it all depends on the individual. Small businesses have really helped our economy since the Reagan era. But they are very demanding and there's a reason why so many are for sale. People like Michael Dell are rare and there's still a huge amount of luck involved. I think it's important to teach young people how our economic system works, that risk is involved, and that failure of the business isn't a failure of the person. Still, there's a good amount of people content to be government or corporate drones all their lives.
Manufacturing job which is stated about 50 times in the article isn't very specific, aren't most manufacturing jobs just repetitive labor where workers are basically treated as commodities? Obviously you need to be literate in any job, but then most high school graduates are literate. Exactly what level of aptitude in math and science do you need to work that sort of job? I put together computers as a hobby, it doesn't take any aptitude in anything except reading manuals and being careful with your hands.
Yeah. He put in 31 hours the first week, 16 hours the 2nd week, and 1 hour the 3rd week. He would have been gone the 2ndweek, but he kept taking off early! LOL.
IMO this is a runup to increase immigration. The tech industry used this same scare tactic to trick people into thinking that there weren't enough technical people to fill the jobs here. That was the excuse congress used to raise the cap on H1B visas.
But, back in India, where the majority of the h1b workers are from the story is different. They are leveraging h1b visas off of US "free trade" deals. That is, in order for the USTR to get India to sign on to their FTAs, they have to take more migrant workers from India. So they put a little story in the news about a crisis, and nobody looks any further into the dirty deal.
Doesn't he have a fork lift?
I hope you didn't get hit with the employment agency charge.
I am currently getting my degree. If my company ever closes I am screwed. You are right. We are only hiring PhDs. We used to hire B.S. about five years ago.
my = most
IMO this is a runup to increase immigration.
Bullseye
Machines that used to be manual are now computer controlled. GM may post their digital specs for a door handle on the Internet for companies world wide to bid on supplying it for them.
A five axis mill machine operator can download those specs directly from the Internet to his machine, insert the correct cutting tools, stick a 20 foot long bar of aluminum into the machine, push a button and the machine pops out 40 door handles in a couple hours.
But the operator has to take care of the machine, constantly lubricating the cutting tools, clearing away filings and monitoring every aspect.
He also needs to know about computers. Computers on machines have some of the same problems that computers on desks have.
Still harping on same ol' string, eh Swampy? Whether or not a person has a decent education has absolutely nothing to do with whether anyone was aborted over the last 30 years.
Stupid argument, boy. Keep using it.
They wouldn't last long at UPS, FEDEX, ect.
First thought that crossed my mind. "We'll bring in 10 million more slave laborers from Mexico that just want to do the jobs that Americans don't want."
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