<p>Your Most Valuable and Portable Asset isYour Skill Set. Or, Have You Been Deskilled?</p><p>“Who has a trade may go anywhere” ~SpanishProverb </p><p>Are you as skilled as your Grandparents? </p><p>How do you define skills? What skills arepractical skills and thus important―wealth-creating skills? Is there a shortageof people with practical skills? Meaning, are most people just not that useful?Are you skilled and useful? If you had to pick up and move, would your skillscreate value and earn you a living anywhere? </p><p>Skill is defined as proficiency, facility,or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience. Tome, this is painting all skills with the same brush and lumping the useful andthe useless altogether. Pushing a button at McDonalds, to make the fries, isn’ta practical skill. It’s useless, worldwide, except at McDonalds. </p><p>Just because you were trained to dosomething, doesn’t make it practical or useful. Take the people who work onassembly lines, doing one action over and over. They may be ‘trained’ and‘practiced,’ but is what they do really useful? A person who makes one cut on aslaughterhouse floor is not a butcher. This sort of one dimensional work isrampant in our culture, in offices and factories � the super specialists areactually useless. Are you one of them? </p><p>What a specialist does may only be usefulin one company or factory � not practical and not that useful. If the plant,factory, or office shuts down,トートバッグ, what do they have? From our meat cuttingexample, they have the ‘ability’ to make one cut. The ‘skill’ is prettyuseless. They’ve allowed themselves to be deskilled, like millions of others inAmerica, by the division of labor. Not very practical. </p><p>Adam Smith said division of labor would beeconomically destructive (emphasis added). </p><p>So, what is a practical skill? What isuseful in this day and age? You have to look at what people actually need tosurvive and thrive and then discover the associated skills. What do we need tosurvive and thrive? Water, food and shelter are required for survival, right?To thrive, we need more varied practical skills. </p><p>So, an understanding of how to find and usewater is important: plumbing, water management, water purification,desalinization. What skills, besides plumbing, are necessary? Irrigation putswater to good use raising crops, so skills in proper irrigation are practical. </p><p>For food, farmers are the obviouspersonified answer, but what are the skills associated with farming? We don’thave enough space here, there are so many skills a </p><p>farmer must know if they raise crops andanimals,ロンシャン財布. They have to know everything about each crop and each animal in orderto produce and get their goods to the market � farmers have a lot of practicalskills. </p><p>Food production, preparation and storageare all necessary skills in order to take raw food stuffs and convert them intomore useful forms. Butchers, produce managers, grocers, bakers,Longchamp, chefs, all havetheir hands on raw food, and all use their practical skills to add value to thefood. They do what they do, and it betters you life. </p><p>How about shelter? This one is vast also.Just think about all the skills that are necessary in order to build a home:excavation, masonry, carpentry, plumbing, electric, finishing, etc. Really, weare just beginning to scratch the surface of some of the skills necessary formaintaining ‘normal’ life in North America and we haven’t even touched on whatpractical skills are necessary for our culture to thrive. </p><p>What about cars? Wow, there is a lot toknow in order to build and maintain these, but our culture relies upon cars andother motor vehicles in order to thrive: get around quicker, transport more anddo it all very easily. Engineers, mechanics, welders and trades people of allsorts all add value to this equation. They build and maintain our vehicles sothat our economies can thrive. </p><p>How about the roads? Clearing the trees tobuild or maintain those roads, preparing the ground to build or maintain roads,designing roads. I don’t even know where this could lead. What about commercialbuilders? Imagine if we look at computers. So many skills required. </p><p>Are you useful in a variety of ways thatrelate to surviving and thriving,ロンシャンポーチ? Do you possess practical skills that areuseful to many and useful anywhere? These are very important questions,Longchamp バッグ. </p><p>Imagine, you have just graduated with aphilosophy degree, an undergraduate degree from a college or university. In thesummers between years at school, you worked in a convenience store or on afactory floor. You may have made yourself relatively useless, lacking practicalskills. The fact that so many university and collage grads are out of work isvery telling. People over-specialized themselves into uselessness. Sorry. </p><p>Becoming de-skilled is a very realpossibility. thriftculturenow.com</p></p><br/>
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