<p>Seen today online: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/opinion/05chace.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/opinion/05chace.html</a> </p>
<p>"How will many of you begin your adult lives? </p>
<p>"In serious debt."</p>
<p>Should we call the Wahhh-mbulance?
the only debt we had 23 years ago- was the remainder of our oldest daughters 8 week stay in intensive care and our mortgage.
We didn't have college loans to pay off as we didnt attend college.
While many factory jobs have been shuttled overseas- so have many white collar jobs.</p>
<p>[In</a> Ohio, American Micro Products, an electrical-parts maker, is offering $1,000 bonuses to workers who recruit technicians, and it is covering moving costs for the new employees. In San Antonio, Toyota cannot find enough qualified applicants for skilled positions at its new plant, even after the state sponsored a training program. In Fontana, Calif., California Steel Industries found it so hard to fill five mechanical and technical positions, some paying $28 an hour, that managers started paying employees to train for the unfilled jobs.</p>
<p>About 90 percent of manufacturers say they are having trouble filling skilled jobs such as those of machinists and technicians, according to a survey released in December by the National Association of Manufacturers, the leading industry group representing 12,000 manufacturers.](<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003241442_factoryworkers03.html%5DIn">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003241442_factoryworkers03.html)</p>
<p>I didn't advise my daughter to attend college as a job placement program, but students are going to have to support themselves.
Lets hope anyway.</p>
<p>I sense yet another discussion of college debt coming on!</p>