Thank you all for your interest!
We all watch the news headlines telling us of rising unemployment and the disappearance of the manufacturing industry in the United States.
One has to wonder which came first, the industry or the skills required to support it.
Successful entrepreneurs start�new businesses�using skills and knowledge they already have. If�the only skill we have is accounting, we will become a nation of accountants. On the other hand, if we were skilled carpenters, wouldn’t we see more furniture manufacturers? If there were more skilled toolmakers, wouldn’t we see more manufacturing of all kinds?
Just speculating here, but what if we all took a look at our hobbies, all the extra curricular activities we do and love. Ask ourselves, “Do any of these activities actually produce something tangible?” Strangely most hobbies that we truly love produce something (a garden, a shed in the yard, a bracket for your RC car, etc). Perhaps it is finally in our best interest as individuals and as a nation to earn our living doing what we like most!
Perhaps we should apply this thinking to what we tell our children as they plan their futures. College? Of course, but for what?
It may actually be in their best interest to achieve a skill that produces something that can be bought and sold, shipped and received. If there are not enough jobs for all the MBA’s we have now, then teach our children a trade they can use to start their own business and create their own job.