Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 - 1:03 p.m.
Apprentiship 101
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Europe, and Germany in particular, has had a long history of apprenticeship-- apprentices earn zero pay while learning their craft, half pay half way through the learning process.. then the pay off is graduating as a master..some years later. Thats the game-- no quitting and no loafing
Here in soft white liberal land . kids assume going to college is buying a skill- it is not buying a skill,it is exposure to a greyer degree of responsibility and excellence than high school.. thats all. College a general introduction to the skill: it is not a course in mastering the skill set.
The young tuition paying genius is then responsible for rolling into a staring position somewhere afterwards, after graduating college. All they have is a general introduction to the career they are interested in.
No employer will hire someone who doesn't know how to perform the operations they are hired for. Why should they? The marketplace is not responsible for training new workers they require to keep society running smoothly.
The kids in WW2 era were desperately needed to perform tasks men fighting overseas had been doing before hostilities began. 15 year girls typing and doing office work, etc. during the wartime labour shortage would soon be laid off when adult workers were released from military bondage in peacetime.Even they were soon replaced by the simplest of office machinery came on, and many were rendered completely unnecessary when xerox copies came out, and totally unnecessary when the internet came on.
With a basic desktop set up of screen, keyboard and computer -, business people don't need to hire unskilled staff- they can type their own letters and manage their own office. Vast numbers of unskilled people were simply not needed anymore. If they didm';t upgrade their skills, they didn't work again, or just worked sporadically. Thats how the middle class dried up- they were indeed a class in the middle with no real future. Easy come, easy go
There is always work for people who know how to do things.. there are much fewer schlep jobs available esp since the 21st C. If millions of people don';t have skills someone else needs and will pay for, they slip off the middle class tracks and skid out, possibly never to return. Its not a recessions for everybody, but it is the end of an era for the unqualified... nobody said unworthy,
Many are called but few are chosen
