Yeah it’s more complicated than that. One of the bigger hold ups has been that some one told them those mining jobs would be coming back.
But in so far as some of the training programs were designed to prep younger workers for thing like network admin, and solar panel tech jobs. Those jobs never materialized (also for complicated reasons). And while there are plenty of those sorts of jobs outside of coal country, getting people to relocate is hard.
Hmmm - that feels more like projection, IMO. I gave a list of reasons people don’t go a four year route, some of them is aptitude, and some of them is preference.
For example, my brother got good grades and is very bright, but he didn’t want to sit in a class room for 4 years. There were other reasons he opted for the Navy route as well, it is just one in many examples where they chose a different route than a traditional 4 year school. I know other people who really have no interest in a traditional liberal arts education. They aren’t dumb by any measure, but would rather spend their time learning what interests them and working on skills that interest them. In one case it is self taught programming.
They probably should, but you are battling the fact that the pool of people who can do those jobs is so large.
I agree. I meant to say, but think I deleted, that most people think they should be paid more. And we have the data to show wages have been stagnate for decades.
Lots of people got hit hard with the recession. And I know white collar people who went blue collar or had to switch careers because they couldn’t find work in their old line of work. The very young and the ones over 50 have the hardest time find good work. i agree with your assessment of the various working woes. I don’t think being blue collar or white collar makes one immune. Traditional 4 year or specialized skill training I think gives one clearly a leg up over people who have neither. Overall I think we agree on most of the key points of this issue.
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