Mike’s second video after the initial launch of the site in 2008. It’s good to have historical info and stuff, but don’t you think we should do something about this?
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Mike’s second video after the initial launch of the site in 2008. It’s good to have historical info and stuff, but don’t you think we should do something about this?
3 Comments
It is great that someone has started a national movement for trade and indusrty. Mike has hit the nail on the head here. I have been a machinist for more than a decade and am now an instructor at a community college. The area I teach in is full of opportunities in trades, but we struggle greatly to find students. Why? Well H.S. and parents have engrained in these kids that success is equal to a four year degree. While I am a supporter of education, not every kid is a B.A. bound student especially out of H.S.. I have an A.A.S. in tool and Die, a B.A. in Industrial Technology (which I earned while working as a machininst) and now am woking an a masters degree. The single best educational experience of my life was at a tech school because the instructors had that “real life” experience that Mike shows weekly. Our H.S. teachers most often times have gone to school, gone to college, and then tought without ever really having expereinced what they are teaching. It is this process that leaves them with tunnel vision. More than that look at the people making decisions on the future of education more often than not they are over educated under experienced life long professionals, something needs to change and soon or we simply will not have a work force to deal with the Chinese threat.
I am glad someone is finally speaking up for the tradesman. I was at one time beguiled into thinking that “higher education” was the answer to economic problems. After I worked and went into debt to find a better job, I ended up working in a travel trailer factory that eventually went bankrupt. However, I learned an important lesson: There is good money working with one’s hands and it can be fun. Now I am a welder with a bachelor’s degree,I get dirty every day and I get well paid for it.
Still missionary after all these years. My how flies time when you’re having fun, or flies are fun when you’re having time, or something dirty like that.
I’m seriously hoping some industry locally will invite Dirty Jobs here. We could use the boost. Too many new and old foreclosure notices and bank owned properties for sale. Would love to invest in the $25,000 duplex in downtown Port Huron, but even that is out of reach…