North Central US | Waterlooiowa - 10/21/2025 09:31
On the post about picking fruit someone made a comment about part of the problem with labor is that many people get a job and only do that one thing forever. I grew up on a grain and livestock farm with a father that had been a mechanic and done carpentry before farming.There are many things that I assumed everyone knew that I had just grown up with. I knew of many kids from farm families that had one kid go off into a business of his own simply because of things learned as a teen. When I was little I shingled a hog house one summer then started doing one side of a barn every summer after that. I hate to think how much concrete I poured,but it got done.
The majority of people grow up in cities,,those kids don't know anything unless they are specifically taught to them,,,a lot of jobs that us older guys think are simple because we did them without pausing to think are going to be paying a lot of money to those that will get their hands dirty.
That was my comment, and its not "you get one job and keep it forever" it was "most think you get one job and keep it forever".
It used to be you start out with something minimum wage/true entry level, like a waiter, grounds keeper, grunt, and move up and/or over until you got to a job you liked, paid well, and was reasonably stable, and the you stayed there.
Now you are pushed from junior high to worry about what job you are going to get so you can choose the college/university and degree you will go to and get. Minimum wage/entry level are used as an insult, a threat. "You don't want to work at McDonald's/resturant/service/mechanic/concrete/roofer/etc the rest of your life" or replace "you don't want to work" with "well if you find out college doesn't work you can work" or similar.
One is pushed at an early age into thinking you get one shot at one job or else one is doomed to competing with a kiosk at McDonald's.
That was my point.
If one can change that thinking, to something like "you can work around and up" or "you can work at more than one place in your life" or "you can take a temporary job for now" or something and get that pushed, you'd probably not have a lower end job problem, as they would be filled with the people they were meant to be filled with: those using it as a stepping stone elsewhere.
Edited by GS2 10/22/2025 01:59
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One job for life??????
