Dumb and Dumber

I have been listening to what some folks have been saying about jobs. Now I have a personal view as one who for a few decades created jobs, out of whole cloth. I did not work for someone and hire new people, I created a new company and hired people to do things in the new company. And from time to time we have reunions and they always say that working in the start up was the greatest moment of their career.

Why? Well I did not care about degrees, I wanted to have people do their best. I had quite a few High School grads, and PhDs, and they all did a great job. Never really asked where they were educated just wanted to know what they could do. The secret to good management, finds out what someone does well and then let them at it.

Now I have heard an actor, at least that is how he was introduced, tell his interviewer how we should create jobs, train people, have the Government train more people. Now when I listened more closely he and his interviewer, some foreigner from across the seas, said yes, high tech training, that will create jobs!

Are they out of their minds. What shall we do, take some teamster and train them to be a PhD in EE from MIT, thugs with brass rats! Do we just say to MIT, forget standards, open the door and take these thugs and make them leading edge researchers, get them to come up with great ideas, now, think, create! They are union thugs, they cannot do this, it is not in their genes. This is what we get from Washington.

How about training Cancer Researchers at Stanford, we just get unemployed auto workers ship them to California, set them up in labs and train them to cure cancer. Oh yeah, that will work! After all they take their breaks, they leave at 4 PM, just drop those good old gels down the drain and come back on another work day. And then they strike, yes strike, after all they are not paid enough. That will really encourage post-docs.

Train entrepreneurs? Trains researchers? Do these people have a clue, apparently not. After all they are actors, big egos, little brains.