A large part of this started when I was a kid in the 60's. I well remember Mrs Brown in 3rd Grade and Mrs Glover in 4th telling us kids over and over how we didn't want a career actually working. We were told we wanted careers where you wore a tie to work every day.
I was a caree NCO in the army, Armor. Wasn't my job to teach your kid self discipline or common sense! My job was to teach your kid how to survive on the battle field! My job was to teach your kid to make war and destroy the enemy! My job was to insure they could fight and win! It was your job to teach the self discipline and common sense.
As far as attracting qualified workers? Well you get what you pay for. Last I checked an experienced machinist should be making around 60-70K a year. If the company is looking for experience they have to pay for it. Granted they have to raise prices to cover the additional expense but that's life. And that's where jobs today are being done off shore. If company A has stuff done off shore company B has to follow suit to be competitive.
Kids coming off the farm for WWII did have all the skills people seem to think. They didn't start getting electricity until 1934. Then many because of the depression couldn't afford it. Lotta those kids came off farms that were plowing with animals too so they really didn't know much about mechanics either. And the vast bulk who joined or were drafted came out of cities and towns.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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