Exaggerations weaken your argument. Two years of college can lead to a career as a police officer, plumber, electrician or firefighter and many other medium to well paying jobs. Post secondary education has always been a ticket to a better paying job. Kids today are no different in that respect. What does separate them previous generations over the last 30 years is opportunity.
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Exaggerations weaken your argument. Two years of college can lead to a career as a police officer, plumber, electrician or firefighter and many other medium to well paying jobs. Post secondary education has always been a ticket to a better paying job. Kids today are no different in that respect. What does separate them previous generations over the last 30 years is opportunity.
Exaggerations weaken your argument. Two years of college can lead to a career as a police officer,
The prosecution rests....
What does separate them previous generations over the last 30 years is opportunity.
That's...... Exactly my point. Without the post secondary ed, opportunities are few and far between
How can the labour pool shrink as the boomers retire? These vacancies must be filled. I also know of a number of people that are on contract to bigger business because they cannot find skilled people to do the job and they re-hire retired people on a contractual basis. At some point the person must actually retire and at some point, someone will have the education to take over. I don't know how it is where you live but where I live, everywhere I go, in even the most menial jobs, seniors are working. Some of them are obviously very senior. It boggles my mind when I see someone who is obviously in their late 70's standing in a store like Super Store, folding clothing. I don't think they are there because they want out of the house. They are there because that extra money over and above the tiny OAP helps them live a little. I know there are people here who would say that with careful planning, those kinds of people would not have to work. Well, **** happens and not everyone plans.
A couple of months ago, a man from China was talking to me at my work place. He conveyed to me that in Canada, businesses close down, 200 - 300 people out of work. China, business shuts down 600 - 800 people out of work. Really bad he says.
That leaves me to wonder how there could be a labour shortage.
No they mustn't be. Ideally they should.
I'm sure they are. The question is for how long are they willing to work and how long are they able to work.
We are already in the position of job sharing in some industries because of the inability to find workers. Municipalities in Alberta are already sharing utility operators because they can't find any and 70% of operators in Alberta are over 50 years of age. The problem is'nt going to get better any time soon.
The news report on Alberta sounded a tad bleak today. It's on the news page on Telus. It doesn't sound awful. Just way down from where Alberta was sitting a couple of months ago. Says Sask. is the place to be. They don't mention BC but there really isn't any shortage of work here yet anyway. Still loads of building going on here and I gather from your words, much the same is happening there. News reports make things sound so bad most of the time when really not a lot is happening.
That's because of the recession, which is a short term problem. I'm talking about the next 20-30 years
I also know of a number of people that are on contract to bigger business because they cannot find skilled people to do the job and they re-hire retired people on a contractual basis.
That is the reality of today's workforce.
Outsourcing, contracting or consulting
The company avoids overhead costs such as physical space (in telecommuting instances), benefits and severances. It adds up to about 23% of your salary if you are an "employee"
Seniors still in the workforce? To a certain extent. The nest egg they might have set aside didn't keep up with inflation
Quite a few people who were on the verge of retirment last summer, suddenly found themselves considerably "poorer" 6 months later (that trend is continuing)
I lost $30,000 in Mutal Funds in a matter of weeks before I put them into a very low risk, low return option. I'm young enough to make it up over the next 7 yrs, but If I had contemplated retirement. I would have had to stay in the workforce
It's ugly "out there" today and will stay "ugly" for the next 18-24 months
Alternative energy sources. It's not going to get much better in Alberta after the recession