Re: Equipment Financing - Holy Crap !!!

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:51:07 AM UTC-4, JoeRaisin wrote:
 As I understand it, there is a severe shortage of machinists right now. La=
st numbers I heard was that there were about 40,000 job openings for machin=
ists in the country that can't be filled. Good thing all those folks went t=
o college for their poly-sci degrees and we have de-emphasized education in=
 the trades.

Read a little excerpt once about a father who was helping his daughter to g=
et into college. In the application they asked him to write about his daugh=
ters attributes. When it came time for the interview at the college she was=
 accepted and the interviewer said that something the father said in his de=
cription was an important factor in her acceptance. In his description he s=
aid that he didn't actually know if his daughter was a good leader or not, =
but she was the best follower he knew. The interviewer said that since ever=
yone else that was accepted at the college was described by their parent as=
 an excellent leader ...the college needed at least one good follower.=20


I've been good with my hands and awareness of the "phyics" of how things wo=
rk since I was a little kid. However, in my generation, anyone who worked w=
ith their hands or in a trade didn't make much money. Everyone was supposed=
 to be an "Engineer". I wasn't too thrilled with school and barely made it =
through highschool and went into the US Navy and chose electronics. When I =
got out, I tried to go back to college on the GI Bill for business. I got g=
ood marks but I got to within 40 credits of graduation and decided that the=
y weren't teaching me a damn thing about business that I needed to know. Ho=
w to read the stock reports in the Wall Street Journal and solving Big Corp=
oration problems. No basics except minor bookeeping and accounting procedur=
es was the extent of that.
I've never regretted leaving .... in fact, if anything, I regret that I was=
ted my time and money going to college at a time in my life that I should h=
ave been paying more attention to building my practical skills and educatio=
n.

Of what importance is there for the "average" kid to go to college if he'll=
 never get a job or be able to get a job in the only thing he's ever been s=
chooled in. These kids are primed all of their lives to go to college. It s=
eems as if they place their brains on hold until then, because they're led =
to belive that they're going to learn "everything" they'll ever need to kno=
w when they get there. So many of them don't have any practical interests o=
r education. It's all geared for ...." When you get to college" but not for=
 "after" you get out of college".=20

They can all play video games though!