Over these past few months I have been fortunate to attend an EMT class. I’ve learned quite a lot, and I’m almost finished with the class, all thats left to do now is the final exam for the class as well as the NREMT (National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians) test. I have learned important skills and gained confidence in myself as well. Yet one thing I don’t understand is why there seems to be so many hoops you have to jump through just to be able to start working as an EMT and gain some actual experience in the field.
Yes, there are countless hoops we all must jump through in life, but this is getting ridiculous. It seems as though any profession which requires the use of real skill is also requiring insane, exclusive commitment and submission to that particular profession.
The same could be said of construction work, if you’re not part of the club (or don’t know someone who is) then you likely aren’t getting in. Maybe I am wrong, but this is how it looks to be.
Did the men who built the empire state building have to sit in a classroom for 3-6 months before they could even step foot on the job site?
Of course they didn’t. They learned from the men around them, they learned by being in the field. These men built something absolutely amazing in 1 year and 45 days, nowadays a job like that would take 3 years.
If you think that young men don’t want to work now, just wait wait a few years and you’ll be shocked. With increasing regulations, increasing number of laws, and increasing requirements for schooling there eventually won’t be very many people left to do these sorts of important jobs. Couple that with inflation and war, and young men will not want to work. Young men will give up and become increasingly dependent on the state.
I am not saying that people shouldn’t work, I am saying that the system in place is suffocating people, and this isn’t news to anyone. We all know it on one level or another.
We have all seen the videos of people talking about how they are just scraping by or how they cannot believe the price of rent and groceries.When you can’t buy and own a house, when you can’t truly own land, when you can’t buy a car or pay for groceries, when your job seems worthless and you can’t feed your kids, what will people do?
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Over these past few months I have been fortunate to attend an EMT class. I’ve learned quite a lot, and I’m almost finished with the class, all thats left to do now is the final exam for the class as well as the NREMT (National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians) test. I have learned important skills and gained confidence in myself as well. Yet one thing I don’t understand is why there seems to be so many hoops you have to jump through just to be able to start working as an EMT and gain some actual experience in the field.
Yes, there are countless hoops we all must jump through in life, but this is getting ridiculous. It seems as though any profession which requires the use of real skill is also requiring insane, exclusive commitment and submission to that particular profession.
The same could be said of construction work, if you’re not part of the club (or don’t know someone who is) then you likely aren’t getting in. Maybe I am wrong, but this is how it looks to be.
Did the men who built the empire state building have to sit in a classroom for 3-6 months before they could even step foot on the job site?
Of course they didn’t. They learned from the men around them, they learned by being in the field. These men built something absolutely amazing in 1 year and 45 days, nowadays a job like that would take 3 years.
If you think that young men don’t want to work now, just wait wait a few years and you’ll be shocked. With increasing regulations, increasing number of laws, and increasing requirements for schooling there eventually won’t be very many people left to do these sorts of important jobs. Couple that with inflation and war, and young men will not want to work. Young men will give up and become increasingly dependent on the state.
I am not saying that people shouldn’t work, I am saying that the system in place is suffocating people, and this isn’t news to anyone. We all know it on one level or another.
We have all seen the videos of people talking about how they are just scraping by or how they cannot believe the price of rent and groceries.When you can’t buy and own a house, when you can’t truly own land, when you can’t buy a car or pay for groceries, when your job seems worthless and you can’t feed your kids, what will people do?
Give up.