[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Michael Horton]

!wrong!  common sense is a good and appropriate resource.
(or do you like answering your boss' stupid questions?)

common sense takes a long list of particulars and, at some point, begins
to generalize.

the long trend of people moving from the country-side to cities because
of jobs is a much repeated historical fact.
the effect of slumps and booms in the building industry is easily
observable in the us.
the movement of people during the us depression to areas with jobs is
common knowledge.
the movement of people during us recession to areas with jobs is also
common knowledge.
if you know anybody associated with the us national guard or reserves,
they will document this.
(you lose your job, you go full-time with the guard or you seek more
duty time, etc.)

given enough particulars and a trend/pattern is seen.
patterns repeat and are, therefore, predictible.
hence, common sense.

if there are no jobs available and the military is hiring, people will
seek jobs in the military.

of course, "no jobs" can mean a variety of things:
no jobs, few jobs, not enough jobs, low-paying jobs,
unknown jobs, no high paying jobs, "no jobs that i want",
etc.

in the nineties a book entitled, "The Death of Common Sense" was
published.
it was a short and easy to read book.
it is invaluable for its insights into how us culture works today.
it illustrates both the reason common sense is a good thing and why its
loss is a tragedy.




-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Charles Shannon Hendrix
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:40 PM
To: The Geeks List
Subject: Re: [geeks] Special skills draft?


Fri, 24 Sep 2004 @ 09:01 -0400, Michael Horton said:

> and, there is common sense.

My question was not specific enough I suppose, but common sense is
probably the poorest resource to use when there are so many other
factors right now that might account for the increase.

What I mean is this: is the military talking about the increase in terms
of the job market?

Usually they have reports at least yearly which talks about why
recruiting is going well or going bad.

Lately, I hadn't heard anything from the Pentagon talking about it,
which prompted the question.

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