Thanks Dad!
I guess Dad was right about getting that college degree. These days it's the educated and skilled that are in demand. If you look at that particular job market, it is very, very tight ... just a 1.8 percent unemployment rate. When I first entering the job market and seeing longshoremen and garbage men pulling down big union bucks compared to my meager entry level salary, I wondered about whether the education was worth it. But now it seems so. So when you see things like today's job number, 167,000 jobs added ... good but not jaw dropping, remember that is just the first layer of the employment onion.
The skilled labor shortage
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