Manufacturers Can’t Fill Skilled Positions

[Bryce]

Originally Posted by IMPALA MAN

Most of you took the words right out of my mouth. The best Engineer ever created was one that:
1. Was raised on a farm.
2. Was middle class or poor.
3. Then went to college to be an Engineer.

A great recipe. I happen to work with one and usually in the end, everyone goes to him for the solutions. What does he provide? Usually answers that relate to common sense.

I had a first cousin who was a straight A Engineering student. I happen to be not as mentally privileged and went to a 4 college to get an Industrial Mechanical degree.
With both of our degrees, his mother asked me to pick him up on my way to our grandmothers house. I was going to repair her toilet in which the float / fill valve needed replaced. His mother wanted me to teach him how to replace it, so when I move away, he can fix it.
I take him along, replace the valve, show him how and asked him if he had any questions. He had only one. "Why don't they do this electronically?".
There you have a fine example of our future. No poor farmer foundational education that we call COMMON FRIGGIN SENSE!!!!
Electronically would be more accurate. When you add in the COMMON FRIGGIN SENSE factor, which they are missing, you would realize that instead of a $10.00 part it would be a $50.00 part. Then no one would buy it and you would make no money. This mathematical formula is called.....COMMON FRIGGIN SENSE!!!

If common sense was common it would just be called sense.

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by Bryce

If common sense was common it would just be called sense.

I think they should just change the term to "un" common sense. Since it is not as common as it used to be.

[GeoffP]

Unfortunately the skilled vs. unskilled labor problem isn't just in manufacturing...it's next to impossible to find anyone that wants to learn anything beyond answering a phone these days and I'm sick and tired of the mail order college degree guys acting like they know anything about anything...at least the guy I'm thinking of tries hard even though he hasn't got the sense God gave him...

Anyway saying all that I couldn't agree more!

[Vegas69]

I didn't need to read the whole article. It comes down to some very simple variables. Americans want to HAVE MORE, DOING LESS. It doesn't work, it's never worked, and it will never work in the future. For example, you ignore you health, gain weight, lose drive, disolve your relationship with your Wife, lose you job, wonder why you lost your job and your kids, and have a heart attack at 45 years of age while you choke down your 28th smoke of the day.

The problem is, 98% of Americancs wish things were like they "used to be". You can live your life that way until your last breath of air or you can choose to CHANGE. Adapt, Learn, Gain Skills, Work on your ATTITUDE, Persistence, Health, and the list goes on down the line. You can separate yourself from the herd by a country mile if you have discipline that simply doesn't exist, today.

Just my opinion.