So, I’m looking at articles out there that I can relate to and I found this great one out of Washington State about the stimulus dollars helping people get Truck Driving Jobs and become a Truck Driver. The part that really struck me was that there seems to be a shift out there in trades that are no longer out there going to new technology. Training is needed for a lot of people who has a skill that is no longer out there. In this article called “Stimulus Funds to Spark New Careers”, it reports that because community colleges in the area are in need of a lot of money, that Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council used $1.4 million of the stimulus dollars for community college courses so that vital classes in courses would not be cut. The council also created programs to help in the cost of new training, which included truck driving.
A man’s story, which was so great it goes as follows:
“One student taking advantage of the help is Lokeni, who was laid off from his offshore oil drilling job in October.
Lokeni, 27, is now in his fourth week of a six-month commercial truck-driving program at Bates Technical College.
He said he tried to find work in the oil industry, but no one was hiring. When he researched training programs for truck driving, he thought he couldn’t afford them, he said.
“When I first found out I got into this program, I was on my knees thanking God,” said Lokeni, who lives in Parkland with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. “Job security to take care of my family – that’s what it’s all about.”
Truck driving has great job security and will be around for years to come and it won’t go away with technology. One of the reasons I’m a truck driver.
Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/15/1109887/funds-to-spark-new-careers.html#ixzz0iLzXQwGC
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/15/1109887/funds-to-spark-new-careers.html
