As someone who has been fired from more than a handful of jobs in my day, I know all too well how important it is to have current marketable skills. Our economy is facing tough times for a number of reasons - but the #1 reason is that we all adjust to new technology at different paces. The human mind is the most complex machine known to man, we haven't been cultivating American minds optimally.
In economics, we call it "Structural Unemployment" - in real life, we call it "poorly skilled". It happens to all of us, it's a symptom of age and decay of the human mind. The brain looks for patterns and fuses into bridges of logic that we call memories. Building new bridges is continually possible even as we age (see brain plasticity), but it gets harder over time.
So, what do we have here in 2010? Depends on your age....
If you are under 30 - you may not have received the best education..if you've been raised by tv, now you're raised by the internet and you could be immersed in any random frequency of focus (eg. Kardasians, Chris Matthews, or Nikola Tesla) - you could spend all your free time watching Nikola Tesla specials (you'd be a loser, but you could do it!)
If you're over 40 and didn't grow up with computers - the world that exists now may be very confusing and scary to you. The internet conquered the light barrier - meaning all information now can travel at the speed of light and be converted into a frequency that we can understand. That's the Frequency for Kenneth.
So what do we need? We need to teach our minds to accept the merge with computers and embrace the shift that's coming full steam ahead.
If Dustin Hoffman's Grandson could star in a "Graduate" of today, the funny line would not be about plastics, it would be robots.
Sprapps are my answer:
Here's an example of The House Financial Reform Bill Sprapp. (Still working on it, but it's getting there.
HR 4173 Financial Reform Bill Sprapp in Excel
Audio Tutorial here:
http://www.kenstalk.com/...
Think we can prove Chris Dodd right about that 80% agreement with Shelby?