Our nation’s rail system is a very critical part of our supply chain and the integrity of our railroad tracks and all of it’s working components and gears must be maintained.
With labor shortages that can also be a difficult task and take longer to accomplish to be safe.
But the issue we must face as a nation is why are we having labor shortages and how important it is to solve this very serious issue.
It’s not just the rail industry facing nearly 20% labor shortages, it’s MOST industries, and it shouldn’t be this way.
Not only do we have a shortage of people, we have a shortage of good values.
And hard work is one of the most important good values America is losing. Or has lost.
Think about this.
How many kids do you hear say they want to be a train engineer when they grow up?
How many kids do you hear say when they grow up they want to be police officers, firefighters, airplane pilots, ship captains, builders, farmers, electricians, lineman, truck drivers, soldiers, doctors, teachers, and any other necessary profession that a country needs to survive?
If kids say it when they’re 5 yrs old, our society’s projected values change their minds by the time they’re 18 yrs old.
Our society teaches them to want to either work as little as possible or to chase dreams they think will make them rich but are only attainable by very few.
Many kids today think when they grow up they will be high paid professional athletes, music or movie stars, paid social media influencers, or will just easily land a six figure job bc they earned a college degree that put them in six figure debt.
In reality, very very few will ever become a professional athlete, music or movie star, or even relevant much less paid on social media.
And landing the big six figure job with a meaningless degree in reality will be a desperate job search resulting in less than $50K/year if they are lucky.
But they will still have the six figure college debt they signed up for after they barely turned 18.
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