"I think you used to be able to spend your whole life machining (or even programming) and do more and more complex things..."
I believe it is a mistake to make this assumption. Machinists, for example, are in demand. When I was in grad school they had a real hard time keeping them, as they kept getting hired away. The argument that made me laugh that they tried on one of them was "you already make more than Prof. @@@. we can't pay you more" they expected that to keep her. who do you think makes the tooling to make those replaceable parts? look up "skilled labor shortage" ok, off the soapbox (disclosure, not a machinist) On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:35 PM, David Madden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/18/14, 3:17 PM, Manuel Muro wrote: > > we need the modern day equivalent of the technician! > > True...I believe that's what you used to get out of schools like Benson, > and theoretically what you get out of DeVry and similar places. I don't > know that there are good long-term career paths for people like that, > though. > > I think you used to be able to spend your whole life machining (or even > programming) and do more and more complex things (and have clients who > wanted or needed those things). But now, companies have realized that > it's more economical to build a business around 100% replaceable parts > -- they don't want to have a 50-year-old genius machinist or programmer, > because their business depends too critically on him/her. > > This is a double whammy for people who would otherwise be good > candidates for technician: you won't be called upon to develop more and > more skills, and you'll be replaced by some other modestly-skilled > worker when your health insurance starts costing too much. And that'll > be the end of your working life. > > Throw student debt into the mix and you have a clusterfuck -- and one > for which no schools teach the critical reasoning necessary for people > to understand and avoid. > > I don't know how to fix it, btw, but it's gonna be Interesting Times (in > the Chinese curse sense) if people start paying more attention. > -- > Mersenne Law LLP · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 > - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - > 9600 S.W. Oak Street · Suite 500 · Tigard, Oregon 97223 > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >
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