Working Jobs Americans Don't Want?
Working Jobs Americans Don't Want?
I've seen quite a few articles mentioning that American's don't want farming types of jobs which is why we need the labor from immigrants.
Here is an example:
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/
However this line right here:
In the last five years, he has advertised in local newspapers and accepted more than a dozen unemployed applicants from the state’s job agency.
Who the hell uses the 'state's job agency' whatever that is or the local newspaper to find jobs?
Nobody or next to nobody. That's who, these farmers need to get with the times if they want employees.
Even when the average rate on his fields was $20 an hour, the U.S.-born workers lost interest, fast.
“We’ve never had one come back after lunch,” he says.
I don't known about Lodi specifically but this is California, $20/hr in a seasonal position seems a little low to be buying a house or supporting a family or buying a car or just about anything useful. Especially considering it's hard work like farming and seasonal, so you have to find something else when it's over. I think they just like what the foreigners are offering inexpensive labor.
Other articles jumped on the bandwagon and act like it's trumps fault. Of course the source is the same la times article above.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/urgent_shortage_farm_workers_native-born_americans_dont_want_job_20170321
I just think it's ridiculous that some states offer programs to help hire workers, but those programs are practically unheard of to anyone who hasn't fallen on hard times and had to rely on those services. To kids just out of high school, they don't know about these programs. High School didn't tell me about the local job stuff in my city. As people grow up with the Internet, there are so many options to find jobs (Craigslist, Indeed, Monster, Glassdoor, etc) why would they even think to search for a city run program? Why would they go into some random nondescript building 15 minutes away, where the homeless and felons go, instead of looking online? (They won't and don't)
People find jobs because of help wanted signs, or nowadays online job applications not the damn newspaper. I bet some American's would love those jobs, they aren't given the chance, because then the farmers would actually have to pay more.
And being an immigrants, i honestly don't mind immigrants who work. I just don't like the insinuations these articles are making. This is how the government's study's get screwed, thinking these are good information to base statistics on and nobody knows what's really going on. Trump said less migrants, now we have farming problems but the devil is in the details. It's the farmers, not the workers, that is the problem.
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Americans want cheap food, and everything else. There are niche markets for quality popping up but most can't afford that. At some point as the labor market tightens up and pay rises we'll see inflation, we are way overdue.
@mynewsteemit: I wish any other business worked that way. They only receive what people are willing to pay them? How does that make any sense in the 21st century? Really unfair!
@imviter excellent insights into this. I think that career planning/prep is no longer a focus in early education, which sets citizens up to fail. Because of the "gold star, everybody wins" attitude, there is a growing perceptions that the worker is the opportunity, not the job.
At the end of the day, gainful employment is one of the main pillars of self-esteem (through the feeling of contribution and reward)
@chefcryptoshark: It's pretty easy to understand, which is happening not only in the USA but in Asia, Europe too. Imagine if a swarm of rich elites entered your country, and paid $100 for toilet paper, $500 for a steak and most businesses changed their prices according to what this rich elite were willing to pay.
Funny thing is a majority of american now grow their own small farms in their back yard to help feed their families and produce healthy crops. I wouldn't by any means say we don't want to!
@bitcoinflood: I completely agree with you. Nobody "wants," to be a Janitor, but people do what they have to do to make a living.
i would love to have work in america so much opportunity untapped.
agree that posting jobs on some local papers. rather than just posting it online is a bit dumb.
20 dollars an hour!!!! in most states you have people with Masters Degrees being evil to each other for half that....the food prices are surging....I do not like what I am seeing ahead crypto or not as that is just as sharky if not worse imho
Interesting perspectives here
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