coltsrmint2 coltsrmint2:
I know that. I just don't see the general public in 2009 interested in joining. They want to work in the IT world or behind a desk. I don't know anywheres that pays someone $32,000 a year to start with only a grade 10 education. I cannot understand why people don't flock to the Recruiting centres? It is crazy.
It's not just IT or desk jobs. In many provinces, jobs in forestry, the oilpatch and/or mining also provide very lucrative careers with little formal education. Other good paying trade type jobs (like plumbing, welding, electricial, etc) can be obtained with only minimal school work as most of the knowledge is acquired on the job, not in the classroom.
Rome had a similar problem and we all know how that turned out. Once citizens are not willing to make sacrifices for their society, it invariably falls. I fear that could be the West's fate in a few decades (a century at the most). We need some hard times for people to realize that life isn't just about being able to buy giant TVs and big cars.