My middle son owns a injection molding company. Since he learned the trade
as a summer worker in the company he now owns, he felt he should pass on
the chance to some other high school kid.
So he went to his old high school and said he could provide a summer job
for some kid that might want to learn the injection molding business.
Wouldn't pay much more than min wage, but he'd work with him if the kid
wanted to learn.
School refused to place anyone with him. "Oh no, we don't want jobs where
the kids work with their hands - now if you had a computer computer
company, or wanted to train him to be the CEO - that's different."
Oddly, this same High School placed him in the job only 8 years earlier.
Times change, not always for the better.
Bob
> My middle son owns a injection molding company. Since he learned the trade
> as a summer worker in the company he now owns, he felt he should pass on
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> Oddly, this same High School placed him in the job only 8 years earlier.
> Times change, not always for the better.
The school is really behind the times then, since many computer jobs are
being sent overseas. Quite a few of my peers have college degrees and upwards
of 20 years in the business - got laid off and can't find work that's not
running a register in Walmart or Home Depot. Kids these days *really* need to
get into the skilled trades instead of white collar careers. It's much harder
to outsource things like plumbers to India!
Sharon
firechief - 08 Mar 2005 06:09 GMT
Sharon wrote:
> The school is really behind the times then, since
> many computer jobs are being sent overseas.
> Quite a few of my peers have college degrees
> and upwards of 20 years in the business - got
> laid off and can't find work that's not running a
> register in Walmart or Home Depot.
While I was instructing at a local community college,
I was handed a federally-funded retraining class.
Students received a non-repayable grant for their
month-to-month living expenses, free books and
free tool kits.
One student, the most unruly, undiciplined student
I had in 10-1/2 years, had a masters in social
sciences. He had set out to transform the world into
a Garden of Eden, only to discover his sheepskin
didn't pay the rent or put food on the table.
He though he was above every other member of
the class, and to him attendance was optional.
Then the boom was lowered and the feds revoked
his grant after reviewing his attendance record.
(A)bort, (R)etry, (D)ragonflame it?