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"Find the technique that works for you." - Thelonious Monk
This section is about Everything having to do With Work:
What is work? Types of work (task, hobby, job, trade, and career), categories (volunteer, apprentice, master, student,
teacher, intern, mentor, mentee, residence, employer, employee, entrepreneur, sponsor, sponsee, angel investor, and philanthropist),
education, training, financial resources, support systems, and access to new and old technologies that will save where
we live, but designed vastly different in order to do so.
"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race, economic
independence." - Booker T. Washington
"We ought to examine our own histories, and our own memories of what it took to conduct the American industrial revolution.
The 35 million human beings that arrived in steerage passage, and percolated through the slums of our cities. The Chinese
that are buried under the ties of the railroads as Archibald McLeishas has said, 'The reconstruction of the human cost of
our industrial revolution would appall us if we did it honestly.' The answer to this problem is economic aid. And economic
aid highly informed by science and technology. The important thing here is information transfer - transfer of technology.
Technology education of categories of engineers and scientists that are needed when doctors and physicians and technicians
are of all kinds. The delivery of a dollar worth of this aid stimulates the production of a total of at least five dollars
of local activity in economic development. ....
OUR COUNTRY WANTS GOODS ~ PRODUCTS "MADE IN U.S.A."
THIS INCLUDES, "MADE IN BALTIMORE CITY"
Alliance for American Manufacturing
"Looking for an American-made product? We've got you covered."
THE SKILLED TRADESPEOPLE
We have a crisis in the United States, and Baltimore is no exception. Our skilled carpenters are mainly senior citizens,
rapidly retiring their well-worn hands that have turned legs, whittled sculptures, and beaded fireplace mantels for many decades.
When you see today an ad for, "Carpentry school," read the description. What it most likely will say is, "construction carpentry,"
skills to build buildings, not kitchen cabinets, or sink basins, or furniture. Just like music was taken out of public schools.
so has woodworking. Woodworking classes are so important, as one develops hand-eye coordination, as well as learn whether
this is the what they like doing; intentionally for those to become carpenter apprentices and journeymen and then masters.
A carpenter makes more than furniture: clock fixtures, signs, woodcarvings, closets, boats and ships, bookshelves, sculptures,
puzzles, wheels, and religious items, such as arks and Torah scroll holders.... Carpenters cut wood and make house and commercial
floors. When carpenters place inlays in walls, floors, sculpture and furniture, they are called, "Ebonists." In Baltimore
City, Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School teaches construction carpentry, but no woodworking.
SO HOW DO WE SOLVE?: What do we do regarding lack of people going into trades, especially people becoming carpenters and
masons? Society of the United States has chosen for 70 years to increasingly ridicule those who do not go to college - work
with their hands. The predominant amount of tradespeople are now senior citizens. What was once called, "Vocational Arts"
became "Vocational" then "Shop" and then taken out almost all together from every school in the nation. In our haste to attempt
to end classism, which exists more than ever, we forgot the myriad of beneficial human development the vocational arts offer
to every student, besides how to use a hammer. "The Skilled Tradespeople" page examines reasons to full job listings, what
Hollywood did to the Vocational Arts, and new training needed for today's tomorrow in relation to net-zero and net-positive
building, systems, and appliances (which continues in the House section). It is not that no one is interested, but that for
one reason or another, most of us were taught, "Go to college and get a good job, especially a government job." Being an
entrepreuer has increasingly not been a choice as more and more people went to work for others, especially in the, "Industrial
Revolution." It used to be all mom and pops, not just selling things, but making things. And yes, one can go to trade schools
and then college and universities for specific high-level training.
GUILDS: The Sense of Belonging and Creating Sacred Friendships. Fellowships of Entrepreneurial Tradespeople.
WORK RESOURCES
This page offers resources as to how you can qualify for scholarships, grants, apprenticeships, and experiential experiences
for vocational arts trade schools, colleges, and universities. Anything you can think of and more. Become aquainted with
Unions, and why they are so valuable. Has full list for Indigenous - Native Americans. Thre is a jobs directory to insure
- "YOU ARE WANTED! ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!" But of course, Baltimore WANTS - LOVES YOU MORE!
HOW BALTIMORE WILL RENOVATE THE HOUSES
The two main costs of renovating a house are labor and materials. Labor costs way more than materials. Partnering with not
jut national, but international Habitat for Humanity offers a great reduction on labor cost.
1. The cost to homeowner(s)-to-be is drastically reduced. The homeowner(s)-to-be work on building their house (or other work
if not physically able to). This creates home ownership pride.
2. Baltimore workforce numbers have sharply decreased, just like the entire United States.
3. Baltimore has McMechen High School, whose use as a school is ending this month, June 2022. Its new use can now be to establish
a Vocational Trade and Guild. A World-Class center for net-zero and net-positive training. And training works for refurbishing
the school. Guilds for various disciplines: including textiles and fine furniture - famous Baltimore goods.
4. Those who choose to be in a vocational training have the opportunity and needed work experience by working on the 15,000
houses.
5.This magnificent project of rehabilitating 15,000 houses serves as the hours needed to qualify for licenses. People are
moved out of poverty for good - by good.
Habitat for Humanity has A LOT of not only fans, but "show-up-to-work" builder workers. President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter have
been builders since 1984. There are many many celebrities like Garth Brooks and David Letterman, a self-confessed Habitat
junkie, known to just, "show up!" "Put me to work!" Letterman calls building, "Complete Zen."
Reparations are a collective effort. At same time working - it simply is fun! You also may just make - lifelong friends!
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"The Willets Point project exists within a larger context of rapidly changing industrial policies and a strong political preference
from city leadership for commercial and residential development. In 2002, when Mayor Bloomberg came into office, the city
had over 12,000 acres of industrial land. By the time he leaves office, over 20% of that will have been rezoned.
Some of this change keeps pace with the number of manufacturing jobs that have been lost since the 1960s. But the lack
of protections for industrial lands, the speed of rezoning, and the encroachment of big-box stores, hotels, and other
uses permitted in these areas are making it very difficult for industrial businesses that would otherwise thrive in the city
feel secure. It's also important to note that manufacturing jobs are good jobs. They pay on average $15,000
per year higher wages than service sector jobs available to the same labor pool (predominantly people of color,
immigrants, and residents who lack a college or high school degree). The 5,300 permanent jobs that the Willets Point project
has promised will include a large number of retail and service jobs, which typically provide limited job
security."
Willets Point might become 'New York’s next great neighborhood,' but it also might not. It may become New York’s
next generic condominium tower development. Meanwhile, the current businesses (many of which are owner-operated) will
likely face the bulldozer, and the displaced {manufacturing} workers, with few options to relocate together,
face an uncertain future."
"So they're moving somewhere else now ~ With their cloths and fabric press.
They found themselves another town ~ Where they'll make shirts for less.
And that is why he said last night he won't watch the old town die.
But I would not take what he tried to leave, when he told me 'Good bye'
Ah, it's good bye ....
"So they're talkin' of the changes the closing brings about.
Talkin' of the hard times and the young folks moving out.
Yes, they're talking as if talking can make everything all right. ....
The day they closed the factory down they had nothing -
Nothing left to say"
"The Day They Closed the Factory Down" - Harry Chapin
"I am the captain and this is my shrine.
Lord of the manor. See what I leave behind.
River in flames, cities on fire.
Yes, I'm a relic trapped in the wire.
Hydrogen fuel, it burns so clean,
throbs in the veins; a mother lovin' machine.
She is my wife. Her mechanical heart
constantly serving, 'Til death do us part'.
Now a glorious war draws to a close.
The yellow winds blow. And I have to know.
Oh industry, whatever will become of me?
Soon the cruel rains will start.
Is it true we must part company?
Oh industry, whatever will become of me?
What have I ever done?
Where did I go wrong?"
WORKING WITH ASPHALT & ASBESTOS
"When you get a haircut, be sure to go back home
When you get a haircut, get a barber you have known
Since you were a little bitty boy sittin' in a booster chair
Or you might look like Larry, Moe or Curly if a stranger cuts your hair"
ENTREPRENEURSHIP [Coming soon!]
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