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Simon_Leung wrote:Skipdawg wrote:Yea school is good but you just can't really beat on the job training.
Make the adventure as fun as possible Simon. ;)
In the current employment climate, is not what you
know, but rather its who you know. I am fortunate
that my closest circle of friends are all working in the
Restaurant or Hotel Industry.
For the past 20 years it has been an adventure both
good and bad...it's about gaining experience.
Go ahead and shoot me for this statement--
This is one of the problems in the World today in alot of industries, its not what you know, its who you know.
It used to be the other way around, there used to be unions and trades schools, we pay for this backwardness in customer service, its my opinion that its why we have such a huge employment turnover and so many companies go under today, here today gone tommorow.
Good Luck and learn all you can
Agreed, we used to have plenty of trade schools, and we still do...many of them run by the companies that hire you and put you thru their own "industrial" training so that your "trade" is specific to their needs.
As to unions, I believe they had their time and place, but for the most part (and, hoping I won't piss too many people off), it's not here and it's not now. In my experience with unions, they do not adhere to the "what you know" philosophy, but, instead, to the archaic philosophy of "seniority and privilege". As I once told a former supervisor, "You do not have 15 years of experience. You have one year of experience 15 times!"
Unions did some very good things, but ultimately, they, along with greed on both sides, destroyed the very industries and companies they created...I give you Eastern Airlines, the US Auto Industry, the US Steel Industry...and others.
jmho