Re: D&SNG Machinist and Mechanic positions available

Whoa, whoa, whoa here. As an educator currently trying to get kids to take tech, i will admit there is something to be said about the monkeys running the zoo. A lot of teachers are people who loved school when they where in it, loved college/university and immediately went back to be teachers. However, to blame teachers and guidance councillors for our inability to find people who are willing to do manual work is just easy scape goating.

This is a much larger societal issue. Look at the story in this thread about the dad who not allow his kid to touch anything that smacked of manual labor. How many people while in middle of their working lives were working under a broken snow plow with wet sloppy salty ice dripping down their back and wished they had a nice indoor job and that there was no way their kid would have do this? How about the auto line worker who while paid well was bored out of their minds or on lay off due to the cyclical nature of the auto industry, couldnt wait to get out of the plant and there was no damn way their kid was gonna have do this. How about the construction worker building something in Arizona in summer roasting like a chicken in oven swearing their kid would never have to do this.

I would have say that most peole see parental success as seeing their kid walk across the stage to get their degree and that is what they push for. It is going to take a lot of change at all levels see that change.

Mike