Comments on: Job Training Programs: Why Bother? http://money.blogs.time.com/2009/07/06/job-training-programs-why-bother/ Money-saving deals and simple advice for saving money Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:16:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lokhupbafa http://money.blogs.time.com/2009/07/06/job-training-programs-why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-159 lokhupbafa Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:51:32 +0000 http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/?p=456#comment-159 Most retraining was for low end computer jobs, but companies have been offshoring low end computer jobs as fast as possible for atleast a decade now. The issue is if the major employeer in an area goes under, what do you retrain as? There are no jobs except in health care, and they all have waiting list at the schools, and take years of training. If you were working blue collar you are already screwed, and now the white collar jobs are going... Look we took the short sighted view of profits now, but no country can survive with out a manufacturers base, and we don't have one. Most retraining was for low end computer jobs, but companies have been offshoring low end computer jobs as fast as possible for atleast a decade now. The issue is if the major employeer in an area goes under, what do you retrain as? There are no jobs except in health care, and they all have waiting list at the schools, and take years of training.

If you were working blue collar you are already screwed, and now the white collar jobs are going... Look we took the short sighted view of profits now, but no country can survive with out a manufacturers base, and we don't have one.

]]> By: mib8 http://money.blogs.time.com/2009/07/06/job-training-programs-why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-156 mib8 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:39:29 +0000 http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/?p=456#comment-156 Great. There have been reports of the ineffectiveness of federal and state job training programs since at least the 1960s. And the advice of the Fed and others in recent years to "go to the junior college" is similarly misdirected, when so many of the unemployed have university degrees, or have been doing work that goes beyond juco offerings. Heck, some of us were delivering papers on the bleeding edge at national and international conferences, or doing other work to improve the field before the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama economic depression caught up with us. Compare with 1940, when tens of thousands of farm laborers, housewives and such were trained within a couple months to be dinkum precision machinists to build aircraft, tanks, trucks and such for lend-lease to the UK, and hundreds of flyers were trained. Great. There have been reports of the ineffectiveness of federal and state job training programs since at least the 1960s.

And the advice of the Fed and others in recent years to "go to the junior college" is similarly misdirected, when so many of the unemployed have university degrees, or have been doing work that goes beyond juco offerings. Heck, some of us were delivering papers on the bleeding edge at national and international conferences, or doing other work to improve the field before the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama economic depression caught up with us.

Compare with 1940, when tens of thousands of farm laborers, housewives and such were trained within a couple months to be dinkum precision machinists to build aircraft, tanks, trucks and such for lend-lease to the UK, and hundreds of flyers were trained.

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