>The educational idiots in this country bought into the idea that >"Manufacturing has no future". > >Now, everytime I visit a machine shop, I get the same question... "Do >you know any good machinists looking for work??"
To be fair, that was pretty much true for people just coming out of school at the time. When I was in college in the 1980s, there were so many people being laid off that whole industries had no entry-level openings for years at a time-- they could always hire someone with years of experience. Manufacturing didn't go away, but it shrank dramatically (at least in terms of number of employees-- a lot of jobs were lost to automation, not just outsourcing). When I went back to school in the 1990s, I thought about becoming a machinist, but decided against it for various personal reasons. In hindsight, I'm not sure if that was a good choice or not-- the job market for machinists back then was not what it is now. OTOH, I might have gotten lucky. Also, keep in mind that a lot of those employers looking for skilled employees (in various fields) want people who will work for low wages-- and there are easier ways to make low wages. If they're serious, they'll be offering more money. [There's a big debate about whether Wisconsin has a shortage of skilled welders or not-- the employers say yes, but the economists point out that wages for welders have been flat for years.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
