Jobs, Jobs Everywhere

I would like to continue on the idea proposed on my last blog about Penny Universities. A quick summation of a Penny University is an education or learning that is either free or cost very little. During this past few months I have started to recognize a trend in the various artisan craftsman trades. My other small business is restoration of antiques, focusing on various styles of seat weaving. This has given me a different lens to see the world through and I am noticing that very few people are taking an interest in apprenticing with these men and women who practice various types of traditional manual crafts. For the reason of not knowing these jobs are there for the asking or a desire not to develop skills necessary for craftsmanship (laziness), I do not know. But I do know these men and women will run there course and eventually retire (usually from exhaustion). I can scarcely go more than a half hour without being reminded about how bad the recession and job loss is, but around me I can see jobs for the taking. Jobs that are only limited to your own desire and energy. Jobs that will provide a one on one professor and no tuition. Jobs that strike at the very heart of American entrepreneurial spirit. The main attributes needed are patience, manners and critical thinking. Does the new generation have such skills? Maybe if they are lacking in these skills it would answer the question of why they are not taking these jobs.

One of the sadist things under the sun is for a man or women to acquire important, useful and hard won knowledge and have not a single pupil to teach.