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This company produces parts for the AR15 rifle which are sold to civilian as well as government customers. Keep that in mind the next time the Chicagocrats try to ban this product. I can think of two other local companies that make parts for this very popular rifle.
10:01, right you are. It doesn't take a PhD, but it does take an education, training, and skill to be a machinist and even run a CNC machine. To bad nobody thinks "Dirty Jobs" are important. Didn't the NT report that IVCC has had virtually no interest from local people in their modern manufacturing course?
It would be interesting to be told more about the modern manufacturing course and its lack of interest by local people. There could be many considerations causing a lack of interest such as cost of course, once completed what are the entry level wages at such facilities as Mennie Machine Shop and S&S Tool and Die in Peru. Another major reason for a lack of interest is what effort is the junior college and the industry putting forth to sell this course? Previously wasn't OJT with pay how people learned these trades rather than a non-paying formal education in which today the worker is paying for the course? Big difference. Also when comparing the amount of interest local people have, who are we comparing them to? It is not a case of nobody thinking dirty jobs are important but a case of whether students want this work or do not want it. As a young man I can remember a retired Army Colonel and CFO of the Howard Hughes Corporation asking me if all of us young kids wanted to go to college who was going to run the machines? I looked at him and told him to have his son run the machines. You'll find most people only want to talk but when it comes to their own they think they are too good and it is for you and me not "them".
And hence everyone looks for a way to collect disability when they aren't disabled or they stay on welfare because just enough to survive is enough when no work of any kind is required, our politicians made it this way. Weak parenting allowed it to fester and become a learned family trait in this area. It's up to voters to change it. It's going to be very painful for everyone especially those of us who make the money now. The government will have to take more but maybe we can change where it's going. For training towards work to start. If jobs are offered based on your ability you have to work or your benefits are slowly reduced. I don't have the answers and I'm not a politician. I am only a vocal voter looking for like minded people to politically force change.
Anon 9:41 AM From reading your comment I believe you do have some of the answers and that you are not a politician. Another answer is that you have to accept the 1st job to get the next better job or do you consider the best job no job with government fringes? Working the system has become a major occupation of the non working group.
Read the article "Too lazy for a challenge? Few willing to tackle program for high-wage jobs" in the News Tribune. It was published February 8, 2015.
Here is a quote from the article:
“I don’t know if people are hungry for jobs,” said IVCC associate vice president of academic affairs Sue Isermann. “It’s not that the jobs aren’t out there. We’re talking to employers who need workers. Maybe it’s the local unemployed and underemployed who don’t want to take the challenge.”
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This company produces parts for the AR15 rifle which are sold to civilian as well as government customers. Keep that in mind the next time the Chicagocrats try to ban this product. I can think of two other local companies that make parts for this very popular rifle.
That would be Mennie Maxine in Granville ans S&S Tool and Die in Peru. And people say there's no work in the area. They need 40 people and growing....
10:01, right you are. It doesn't take a PhD, but it does take an education, training, and skill to be a machinist and even run a CNC machine. To bad nobody thinks "Dirty Jobs" are important.
Didn't the NT report that IVCC has had virtually no interest from local people in their modern manufacturing course?
11:43 they said they'd provide training.....my lord if I was looking for work I'd be there
It would be interesting to be told more about the modern manufacturing course and its lack of interest by local people. There could be many considerations causing a lack of interest such as cost of course, once completed what are the entry level wages at such facilities as Mennie Machine Shop and S&S Tool and Die in Peru.
Another major reason for a lack of interest is what effort is the junior college and the industry putting forth to sell this course? Previously wasn't OJT with pay how people learned these trades rather than a non-paying formal education in which today the worker is paying for the course? Big difference. Also when comparing the amount of interest local people have, who are we comparing them to?
It is not a case of nobody thinking dirty jobs are important but a case of whether students want this work or do not want it.
As a young man I can remember a retired Army Colonel and CFO of the Howard Hughes Corporation asking me if all of us young kids wanted to go to college who was going to run the machines? I looked at him and told him to have his son run the machines. You'll find most people only want to talk but when it comes to their own they think they are too good and it is for you and me not "them".
And hence everyone looks for a way to collect disability when they aren't disabled or they stay on welfare because just enough to survive is enough when no work of any kind is required, our politicians made it this way. Weak parenting allowed it to fester and become a learned family trait in this area. It's up to voters to change it. It's going to be very painful for everyone especially those of us who make the money now. The government will have to take more but maybe we can change where it's going. For training towards work to start. If jobs are offered based on your ability you have to work or your benefits are slowly reduced. I don't have the answers and I'm not a politician. I am only a vocal voter looking for like minded people to politically force change.
Anon 9:41 AM From reading your comment I believe you do have some of the answers and that you are not a politician. Another answer is that you have to accept the 1st job to get the next better job or do you consider the best job no job with government fringes? Working the system has become a major occupation of the non working group.
Read the article "Too lazy for a challenge? Few willing to tackle program for high-wage jobs" in the News Tribune. It was published February 8, 2015.
Here is a quote from the article:
“I don’t know if people are hungry for jobs,” said IVCC associate vice president of academic affairs Sue Isermann. “It’s not that the jobs aren’t out there. We’re talking to employers who need workers. Maybe it’s the local unemployed and underemployed who don’t want to take the challenge.”
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