[quote name='phinsup' date='Jun 7 2005, 03:45 PM']America will suffer as a whole from the fact that skilled labor is no longer a "good" option. anything manufactured in the US will ultimately suffer, it's hard to take pride your work when you are working a supposedly "shitty" job. It's already being seen in the construction industry. In my Dad's era you took pride in your work, your family took pride in it "my dad built that" " my husband built that" no longer is that case.



I personally have far more respect for people like my mother in laws boyfriend who does a good job and takes pride in the work he does then the pencil pusher with a 4 year degree peddling junk bonds to old ladies and draining people's life savings pushing the next enron stock on them.



In past generations high school prepared students for LIFE. In many cases it taught them a trade, it gave them the skills to do something that would put food on the table and a smile on the person's face, however today's high schools prepare kids for college, that's it. It prepares them to get into college and get a degree. That sucks in my opinion.



Watching someone work with their hands, take pride in it and come up with a finished product is amazing. My dad helped me build a bulkhead for my boat a couple weeks ago and it made think that it was definetely something I want to learn, I want to make my own things and appreciate their worth based on the hard work and skill i put into it.



Look at the crap furniture available in stores, try to find someone to make you a custom cabinet, I cant think of one local cabinet shop left. So you settle for crap.



Soon we'll be settling for crap in every industry cause "it's all we can get"


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Damn, dude. You're right on the money. Americans fall all over themselves to rush to Wal-Mart to buy cheap-*** **** new made in China garbage and use it until it breaks and then buy more new ****.



That's as true about kitchen appliances as it is about cars. Use it 'til it breaks, then throw it away.



There won't be one solitary soul in this country that can actually understand how something works and fix it. We will be a country of "degreed professionals" in a service economy that won't know their asses from damned holes in the ground.



There won't be a single skilled technical job left in this country. Nothing sold in the US will be made here, except hamburgers. From imported beef.

 

[quote name='Sinful7' date='Jun 7 2005, 02:08 PM']Well, not really.. I applied, but it's a CC, so I'm in..

Dunno what to go for, I was thinking an EE-Technology degree?

Meh, anything will work! lol






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That sounds like a good choice. The primary criteria should be:



To thine own self be true!





In other words, do what stirs in you a passion, not that which you think will pay the bills.

 

There will always be technical jobs... carpenters, welders, bodymen, surveyors, ditch diggers, burger flippers. Some may not pay as well as other proffessions, but thats life. You either enjoy what you do or you find something else regardless of money.

 

[quote name='94touring' date='Jun 7 2005, 08:03 PM']There will always be technical jobs... carpenters, welders, bodymen, surveyors, ditch diggers, burger flippers. Some may not pay as well as other proffessions, but thats life. You either enjoy what you do or you find something else regardless of money.


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If that's what you got from my posts then you obviously didn't read what I wrote.



First off I didnt say there wouldn't be technical jobs.... quite the opposite there will always be technical jobs however the skill level of the labor will inevitibly decline, thus the quality of the products and craftsmanship produced.



Like I said it's no longer a respectable career option, therefor you get a lower quality worker that takes less and less pride in his work.



Hopefully that sums it up a little.....



furthermore a ditch digger and carpenter/machinist USED to be in totally different categories... which further proves the point I attempted to make in previous posts.

 

[quote name='phinsup' date='Jun 7 2005, 04:11 PM']If that's what you got from my posts then you obviously didn't read what I wrote.



First off I didnt say there wouldn't be technical jobs.... quite the opposite there will always be technical jobs however the skill level of the labor will inevitibly decline, thus the quality of the products and craftsmanship produced.



Like I said it's no longer a respectable career option, therefor you get a lower quality worker that takes less and less pride in his work.



Hopefully that sums it up a little.....


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I didn't read your post.

 

[quote name='94touring' date='Jun 7 2005, 08:12 PM']I didn't read your post.


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Yea, way to step up!

 

Times are changing. At one time picking cotton and working on the assembly line 80 hours a week was the thing to do. Nothing wrong with a little change.

 

[quote name='94touring' date='Jun 7 2005, 08:27 PM']Times are changing. At one time picking cotton and working on the assembly line 80 hours a week was the thing to do. Nothing wrong with a little change.


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Uhh, ok not sure where that fits into the topic, but uh yea.

 

Oh I gotta try one too.



During prohibition there was still plenty of liquor in the speak easy's. There's always going to be alcohol, it may cost more and taste different, but it still gets you drunk!



See, makes a totally unrelated point, yet makes a sliver of sense, I think I dun good!

 

[quote name='phinsup' date='Jun 7 2005, 04:35 PM']Oh I gotta try one too.



During prohibition there was still plenty of liquor in the speak easy's. There's always going to be alcohol, it may cost more and taste different, but it still gets you drunk!



See, makes a totally unrelated point, yet makes a sliver of sense, I think I dun good!


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What? My post was talking about how jobs have changed, which is what you were talking about I believe....or was I suppose to talk about bike helmet laws instead?