Posted on 12/30/2016 12:07:12 PM PST by Indy Pendance
this is partly true, correct, for sure!
but there are still almost no jobs for many of us ... yes, a person with a half dozen university degrees and similar number of professional qualifications and a fine work record....CAN maybe find work.....at McDonalds, at the local taco stand, and delivering groceries.
THESE ARE ALL HONEST HONORABLE JOBS and if I needed one of them I would apply for it..... I certainly respect the folks who are doing those jobs!!!! GOOD FOR THEM! I honor them!
But...... well.....maybe I am ‘spoiled’ to want a job that utilizes some of my skills? If you think this is “spoiled” then I plead guilty. So be it. Its a free market and I have not chosen to apply at McD’s
HOPEFULLY DJT will resurrect the USA economy soon! If we are to become a highly productive nation again, we need jobs at all skill levels...and not only McJobs flipping burgers, again as much as I do sincerely respect them that are doing that. (I have picked strawberries, packed celery, peeled potatoes, delivered newspapers, and a lot more kinds of things....in my day. But since I did further qualify myself, I’d sure like opportunities to apply those skills again.......let’s end Obama’s Depression....! GO TRUMP!
I do try to hire people from time to time and experience some of the problems the author is noting. And local merchants have been wailing complaints for several years about people they try to hire and then don’t show up or show up hours late or show up and take three times the standard time to do a routine task, or mess up the quality of their work (especially problematical in auto repair shops!)...
so the author is correct, there do seem to be a lot of people out there who simply do not know how to hold down a regular job (I am not speaking about skills so much as RELIABILITY, RESPONSIBLITY, PUNCTUALITY, COURTESY, AND HONESTY ... standard skills needed on almost any job...)
Starting at 14 I did whatever I needed to do to make money. (Almost) you name it I’ve done it. Before I got into pharmaceuticals in 79, I delivered circulars, worked in supermarkets, weeded strawberry fields, worked in gas stations, worked in record factories, worked as a dishwasher then chef in an Italian restaurant, worked construction putting up dry wall....then as a non Union iron worker. Worked with a friend as a house painter Bought a motorcycle then found a mechanic befriended him and learn how to fix it.....got a job as a motorcycle mechanic. Fixed cars too... did handyman work for folks...drove school busses, installed aluminum/vinyl siding. Learned how to fix business machines/typewriters (on the job training )
Got a job in pharmaceuticals and in near 30 years in biologics /pharmaceutical firms did 7 different jobs finishing off managing instrumentation/calibration department. Somewhere in the middle of all those jobs I got me an associates degree. I wish I had done more in the education department in HS because I would have liked to have been able to do engineering and / or physics but alas in HS (and afterwards ) I was more interested in Girls, Beer, Guns, Hunting and Fishing.
I was never afraid of working an never ashamed of any of the jobs I did.
Work always gave me a great degree of accomplishment.
Those who don’t want to work are missing out on the greatest parts of life.
Good luck on your job search.
I have to say that “prevailing wage” ought to be tossed in the ash heap of history. It’s from a time where workers were considered identical drones to be dropped into identical jobs - essentially the union mentality.
The whole idea of work is simple and made overly complicated by a bunch of advanced degree’d idiots. Business pays money, worker gives work.
Want more money? Do more, (or more valuable) work.
Can’t find workers? Then you’re not paying enough. By definition.
Of course there are internal economic reasons that a job can only pay so much, but frankly, it’s irrelevant to the job market, just like it’s irrelevant to Office Depot how much you think supplies are overpriced. The market is what it is and, if you can’t make a deal, then you’re not bringing enough to the table.
I believe more people are on welfare ...
I think you have part of the answer. I think some now see benefits as a basic and look at work as something you add on or compare to. For instance, if food, housing and phone are covered by benefits, what is going to get one motivated? $8 per hour gross verses “hanging” out or should they go for a full time job at say $20 per which will reduce benefits to zero while taking away all they free time? I know someone who makes this calculation, perhaps it is anecdotal??
Then there are the parents of these snow flakes who support their leisure lifestyle. I used to work with a lady whose dad left a huge estate. Her comment once was why should her son work, he has money. I asked why she was working? She said because she likes the job. I was amazed. It stopped being funny when mid day she gets a call from the west coast where junior was involved in a rather serious accident while bombing around SF enjoying the trip.
The millennials have never seen a downturn effect them or their families.
‘78-’82 changed me forever.
I always have multiple backup plans now.
Earlier in the week I was in the grocery store with the wife, as I was grabbing Dr Peppers I mentioned the worst part about being on vacation for 2 1/2 weeks is actually having to buy my own soda. Spoiled? You’re damn right.
Skill can be taught, character and attitude cannot.
I’ve been out of work since August, but just lined up what should be a nice gig. Just have to dot the i’s and cross the t’s next week. That being said - I could have taken a position at any number of places looking for help, but chose not to for 3 reasons. 1) I needed the time off and I could afford it - so I did. 2) The positions in question I could have taken would never have made it onto a resume or added any value for me. and 3) Locating a comparable salary/benefits required that I be able to take calls at any time for the type of position I was looking for - job hunting is itself work in that sense.
So now I’m starting the year off on a new foot, well-rested and raring to go. Of course I have some other interviews scheduled that I won’t cancel until I actually have the paperwork finalized.
That's what I would've said; that, or "liberals", same diff. But I never did read what the "one word" was in the article, unless it was "spoiled". Seldom, if ever, would I ever use an adjective all by itself in that way if I were trying to lay blame.
Good point, though.
Lazy and no reason to go to work because Uncle Sam will take care of you and barring that Mommy and Daddy will take care of you.
Millennial brats bump for later....
Rowe talked about the actual need for college degrees a while back, too, and nailed that dubject. It’s way way less than the number of degreed youts se’re churning out, who expect comfortable jobs from it.
Jobs got lost to immigrants in part because our youts weren’t learning to swing a hammer, lay sod, run noisy equipment. Why didn’t they?
I went from going onto a job site and taking engineers to lunch. There came a day when I was on that same job site .... pushing a wheel barrel
I dunno. With President Trump coming, it might make sense for you to tough it out as a self-employed person. I don't think there's much doubt that the environment for small business is about to significantly improve under the Trump administration.
Maybe it ultimately depends on what line of work you're in, whether it's a growth sector, et cetera. I've been self-employed I.T. for a couple of decades and there are certainly ups and downs, feasts and famines. Lots of famine over the last 8 years...
Why get a job picking up road kill when you can live better on welfare?
Frequent contradictory stories on this subject. We’ve had stories posted here of hundreds of Americans applying for jobs at a meatpacking plant after several dozen illegals were found working there. And stories of thousands of applicants at new Walmart supercenters and new openings for other corporations.
There is always churn or turnover in existing jobs, so there will always be openings somewhere. It’s question how many opening are there compared to the number who are seeking work.
“...any kid that was willing to show up to work on time.”
Yikes. That’s asking way too much. /s
Where I live, semi-rural and ostensibly few jobs, there’s a morning call-in radio show called Trading Post. People call in to buy & sell items, and to ask for employment.
Guys are on there constantly, begging for odd jobs, carpentry. yard work, and handyman-type farm work. I’ve long ago stopped calling any of them.
Actually getting one who will show up AT ALL, much less on time, is an excercise in futility. They think Monday 8 am means I should still be sitting around waiting for them on Thursday afternoon.
The ones who do show up can’t / won’t operate a chainsaw safely, making me fear possible injury / lawsuit on my property, and they think they need a 10 minute smoke break every 20 minutes. Forget it.
Interestingly, the state workforce office has hundreds of job openings within 20 miles of here listed on its website. The jobs that remain unfilled forever are the higher paying, skilled jobs, paying above $60-100k.
There’s a bachelor’s degree worth of economic wisdom in your post. I’d like to grab every Democrat and half the Republicans by the hair of the head and rub their nose in your post.
Mike Rowe, FWIW, is a name I’ve seen being floated for a possible future POTUS run. He’s a young guy, worth googling for future reference.
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