Where are the jobs? Oh here are some

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ChesusRice

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With 8.2% unemployment, here's something that will likely surprise you about America's job market:
Companies say they've had 3 million job openings every month since February - this according to the Labor Department.
But employers say they're having trouble filling these positions because they can't find skilled workers to do the jobs.
Bloomberg News reports that in order to narrow this "skills gap," employers are teaming up with philanthropies, governments and community colleges to train their existing workforce.
Places like hospitals are taking the lead, turning to their own staff to train technicians and nurses. Also, factories and construction companies are stepping up apprenticeships.
Employers say it's not just technical skills that workers are missing - they point to so-called "soft skills" - things like the ability to solve problems, think critically and work in teams.
In other words, a lot of Americans are too stupid to do the jobs that are available. Pretty sad.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/25/with-8-2-unemployment-why-does-nobody-want-200000-trucking-jobs/
 
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ChesusRice

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The American Farm Bureau Federation projects $5 billion to $9 billion in annual produce-industry losses because of the labor shortages, which have become commonplace for farmers such as Torrey, who said there were 10 applicants for every job five years ago.
“In the last year that wasn’t the case,” she said. “We hired anybody that showed up for field work. It’ll be interesting to see how many people we have knocking on the door this year.”

With the cherry harvest under way in south-central Washington state, the Sage Bluff farmworker housing compound in Malaga is only half full, with nowhere near the 270 workers it can accommodate.
 
deprave

deprave

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my field would hire billions if we could find any (IT), people really don't want jobs to be honest, they think skills are handed to them on a silver platter by shelling out some money to a college. Simply doesn't work like that. When I do contract work on the side people are pleasantly surprised that they found an American.

Its nice to be "Rolling in the dough" right now, but its very frustrating that we can't get a large enough team of people to really do all the things we want.
 
nontheist

nontheist

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Where do you come up with this shit? Trucking and farming is your answer? You expect most people live in a truck for a week at a time or move to someones farm? Trucking and farming are for a special breed of people, all we need is an art graduate txting while driving a big rig. Farming (large scale) is something you don't just wake up one day and say "I want to be a farmer" it takes know how that you can't get from books only from experience. Successful farmers are generations deep. Its the same with tradesman it takes 6-8 years(depending on state) to become a master tradesman, it takes hard work and good mechanical aptitude. Most of us are generations deep and our numbers are thinning, ever wonder why it cost you $150 an hour for a plumber or electrician?
 
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ChesusRice

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deprave said:
my field would hire billions if we could find any (IT), people really don't want jobs to be honest, they think skills are handed to them on a silver platter by shelling out some money to a college. Simply doesn't work like that. When I do contract work on the side people are pleasantly surprised that they found an American.

Its nice to be "Rolling in the dough" right now, but its very frustrating that we can't get a large enough team of people to really do all the things we want.
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My wife is a business analyst for a fortune 500 company. They tried the outsourcing to India thing, Didnt work out so most of the work in back in house. They still hire a shit load of private contractors though especially for testing
 
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ChesusRice

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nontheist said:
Where do you come up with this shit? Trucking and farming is your answer? You expect most people live in a truck for a week at a time or move to someones farm? Trucking and farming are for a special breed of people, all we need is an art graduate txting while driving a big rig. Farming (large scale) is something you don't just wake up one day and say "I want to be a farmer" it takes know how that you can't get from books only from experience. Successful farmers are generations deep. Its the same with tradesman it takes 6-8 years(depending on state) to become a master tradesman, it takes hard work and good mechanical aptitude. Most of us are generations deep and our numbers are thinning, ever wonder why it cost you $150 an hour for a plumber or electrician?
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Who ever said you had to start out as a farmer? Certainly not anything I posted
and as far as jobs
Give me your zipcode
I will show you jobs
 
desert dude

desert dude

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canndo said:
And we see how that works among conservatives. When one is so impared that one cannot accept let along perceive reality, one has little chance to .... think critically.
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"impaired"
"alone" not "along"

Canndo, if you are going to insult the intelligence of a group of people you ought to proof-read your comment very carefully...

On the other hand, this sort of thing leads to things like, "get a brain, moran", which is an internet classic!
 
ginwilly

ginwilly

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hospitals are training people now? In fact they are taking the lead on this, that's awesome. We need to come up with a name for these instructional periods, let's say clinicals or internships. Earth shattering, they could have been doing this since hospitals opened, I'm glad they are finally seeing the light. Companies should have something like millwright or maintenance apprenticeships and things like that too. This new thinking is an awesome movement.

Unfortunately the days of putting your kids through college while leaning on a broom are ending. If the types of sites Chezus goes to get his copy/paste material are finally starting to realize this we have hope.
 
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ChesusRice

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ginwilly said:
hospitals are training people now? In fact they are taking the lead on this, that's awesome. We need to come up with a name for these instructional periods, let's say clinicals or internships. Earth shattering, they could have been doing this since hospitals opened, I'm glad they are finally seeing the light. Companies should have something like millwright or maintenance apprenticeships and things like that too. This new thinking is an awesome movement.

Unfortunately the days of putting your kids through college while leaning on a broom are ending. If the types of sites Chezus goes to get his copy/paste material are finally starting to realize this we have hope.
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If you can push a button and read a Digital caliper and Micrometer you can start making 14 bucks an hour

Right fucking now

No one wants the work

We just hired a guy who is real smart
been a machinist for 30 years

Hasnt worked in 30 months

His choice
 
tomahawk2406

tomahawk2406

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ChesusRice said:
If you can push a button and read a Digital caliper and Micrometer you can start making 14 bucks an hour

Right fucking now

No one wants the work

We just hired a guy who is real smart
been a machinist for 30 years

Hasnt worked in 30 months

His choice
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i quit my full time job to go back to school and found jobs like nothing. they are deff. out there.....
 
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althor

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I personally think there are jobs to be found. I have seen it. Unfortunately, there are way too many people who would rather sit around and scrape by on welfare than to go get a job.
My employees and I were talking about this 2 days ago and one of them said in the time I have been working for you (going on 2 years) only 3 people have walked up and asked for a job. Yet, daily we are asked for change or cigarettes.
 
budlover13

budlover13

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ChesusRice said:
With 8.2% unemployment, here's something that will likely surprise you about America's job market:
Companies say they've had 3 million job openings every month since February - this according to the Labor Department.
But employers say they're having trouble filling these positions because they can't find skilled workers to do the jobs.
Bloomberg News reports that in order to narrow this "skills gap," employers are teaming up with philanthropies, governments and community colleges to train their existing workforce.
Places like hospitals are taking the lead, turning to their own staff to train technicians and nurses. Also, factories and construction companies are stepping up apprenticeships.
Employers say it's not just technical skills that workers are missing - they point to so-called "soft skills" - things like the ability to solve problems, think critically and work in teams.
In other words, a lot of Americans are too stupid to do the jobs that are available. Pretty sad.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/25/with-8-2-unemployment-why-does-nobody-want-200000-trucking-jobs/
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Gotta love public schools.
 
Grandpapy

Grandpapy

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ChesusRice said:
If you can push a button and read a Digital caliper and Micrometer you can start making 14 bucks an hour

Right fucking now

No one wants the work

We just hired a guy who is real smart
been a machinist for 30 years

Hasnt worked in 30 months

His choice
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Hey! I have a dial calipers and I will push that button with my nose! (if need be):-P
 
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ChesusRice

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Grandpapy said:
Hey! I have a dial calipers and I will push that button with my nose! (if need be):-P
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Most of the guys (and a couple girls) are all around 45-65 years old. We can accomodate you. Its like zombieland here. People Limping people with braces. Im very very close to 50 and i'm one of the "younger " guys

This is what I set up/run program in my shop
[video=youtube;_4o9qeysGwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4o9qeysGwQ[/video]
 
canndo

canndo

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althor said:
I personally think there are jobs to be found. I have seen it. Unfortunately, there are way too many people who would rather sit around and scrape by on welfare than to go get a job.
My employees and I were talking about this 2 days ago and one of them said in the time I have been working for you (going on 2 years) only 3 people have walked up and asked for a job. Yet, daily we are asked for change or cigarettes.
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That experience proves that people don't want to work, right? I would like for anyone to explain how people as a whole became lazy between the time unemployment of 5 percent and less and now. Those with cars and houses and families are not likely to be willing to "scrape by" on a few hundred dollars a week in welfare. I think it is sad that those with jobs have to find a group to feel superior to. "well you are lazy and I am not" when the irrefutable fact is that there are not enough jobs to go around.


Beyond that, althor, you are going to have to take a stance. Either there are no jobs (and it is Obama's fault) or there are. If there are jobs and people are simply too lazy to work, then how are you going to blame Obama for that?
 
Grandpapy

Grandpapy

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ChesusRice said:
Most of the guys (and a couple girls) are all around 45-65 years old. We can accomodate you. Its like zombieland here. People Limping people with braces. Im very very close to 50 and i'm one of the "younger " guys

This is what I set up/run program in my shop
[video=youtube;_4o9qeysGwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4o9qeysGwQ[/video]
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I had to change out ball screw on a Mattsura down in Fremont a few years back and the shop had just set up 4 new Mazak's, they were all supplied by a central "Tool Crib." Incredible. The bad part, they still had to have someone unload the billet's off the truck!!:razz:
It's really kind of scary what we are capable of doing with machines. 20 years ago it would of taken 6 people to run that thing that one person can do now. In half the time!
 
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