Brain Vomit #3: Help Wanted

How do you find good workers? Let me rephrase that, How do you find good workers that want to learn at a price I can afford? The ones with experience are taken or have a terrible track record that I would be doing myself a disservice by hiring them. Pay people more? How much more? We all know that If I ask too much for my services I will lose clients. I am all in favor of a $15 minimum wage. Any self aware human being will tell you that most people are hypocrites and as much as they say they’ll support the little guy, buy local, help their community, etc. They cast their vote with their wallets. They will support the little guy, buy local and help their community as long as it is not inconvenient. This is the main reason why Amazon is closing retailers all over this country. We let them.

Maybe if we focused a little less on the well being of our own personal benefit over the well being of the whole, things would be better for everyone. But then, isn’t that the solution to every problem? Some might find it a bit Anti-American and then they wonder how everything got so screwed up.

I’m getting all over the place. 


 I need help, and I never thought it would be so to find entry level people to do simple entry level work. A lot of people expect my work to be this super exciting craft where engineering, craftsmanship and art interconnect to make a machine that is useful and beautiful at the same time. And even though it can be like that, a lot of it is very boring and repetitive and without mastering the boring and repetitive part of the craft. Anyone should be able to do that right? Unfortunately no. People get bored and the expectations they had quickly banish and then they stop caring about the work and quality suffers (creating more work for to do in the process) or they quit.