There is a large demand in the US of A for good con men/women. For the unemployed, getting a job is not as easy as it should be. Employers either require a four-year college degree or experience for a position where neither is needed. Just today I saw an advertisement for a scrap metal burner. A scrap metal burner cuts up metal with a gas or oxy-acetylene torch. They were looking for someone with 3 years experience. Their second stipulation was sounded silly: "No shop fabricators or casual torch users please." To start off with, it takes 15 minutes to teach someone everything there is to know about cutting scrap metal with a torch. Give that newbie an hour or two and you couldn't tell their work from a pro's work. There's really nothing special about cutting scrap metal. Their second requirement is just absurd. "No shop fabricators or casual torch users please." That's a bad joke. They have to have some good reason for this! The only thing I can think of is that they are looking for speed. Give a hard worker a break! In a day they will get the feel for how fast they need to go and by then they will be up to par.
Experience is required where it shouldn't be. Generally speaking: in the blue-collar world, it takes a mere month to turn from a new-hat to an old-hat (assuming they had proper training). Experience doesn't change much between a month and 30 years. It really doesn't. There are still many blue-collar jobs where experience changes some(and it helps, it really does!), but when it comes to getting the job done it doesn't make much of a difference. I've seen young guys fresh out of high school do the same job, with the same quality as a 30 yr exp old-hat. Experience is everything in the white-collar world, but in the blue-collar world, it is drastically overrated.
You can get a great blue collar job if you can pull off a good con. Very little experience is really necessary. What you don't know, go to your local library a grab a couple books on the topic. If you can get the vocabulary and have a little experience, then you are set up perfectly.
Check out job advertisements online. There are thousands of them and most of them are hilarious. You won't BELIEVE what kind of experience they require now.
When I work I believe in two things: Git r done, and Git r done RIGHT.
I agree!! I've looked for jobs and it seems like only angels and con artists qualify. Even though the unemployment rates are higher than our tax rates there are lots of unfilled jobs out there because employers think they are holding out for angels. One day they will realize that their greed for perfect employees built their companies crumbling edifices held up only by a con.
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