[TheForge] [OT] Re: school waste

[Mike Spencer]

John Allen <countrymetals at gmail.com> wrote:

> Imagine 25 years from now if nothing changes.  Tool and Die will
> either be worth $ 150 an hour or it will all be subed from china.

I get the Toronto Globe & Mail (aka "Canada's national newspaper")
weekend edition almost every week and every week there are several
bankruptcy or similar auctions of fabricators, machine shops, tool &
die shops, machine tool makers and injection moulding shops.  I'm
guessing that your China option is already in progress.

> I see that out of 250 people I graduated with, 175+ are computer
> people.

Ha.  How times change.  Of the 115 of my high school class who
reported in at the 50th reunion, *none* of those (and exactly one of
the few others with whom I've stayed in contact) reported computer
related careers.  I came the next closest: I've grossed maybe $1,000
in the last 24 years from computer-related work.  One of my
classmates, though, is a world-class Barbie Doll collector, dealer and
consultant.


- Mike

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