To those who MAKE and MOVE things… we owe you!!
Even before COVID-19 shut most of our systems down, we had a shortage of labour in industries like manufacturing.
Making stuff is cool! I can’t imagine a better way to start my career.
Yet (so I’m told) it’s hard to attract young people to choose manufacturing these days.
Maybe to them it doesn’t seem as cool as a working for a tech startup, or as prestigious as being a consultant.
But oh my goodness the people who make and move things are VITAL to our society!
You know who I am talking about: makers of the goods we depend on (especially masks and ventilators, but countless other things), tradespeople, truckers, retail workers, farmers and farm laborers, grocery store shelf-stockers, even janitors and house-cleaners… the list goes on.
It took a global pandemic and a moment of crisis for some of us to realize what heroes they are — despite our lack of recognition of the importance of our work.
Don’t they deserve just as much respect as the scientists or bankers among us?
I hope that from now on we can give these people the thanks that they always deserved.
Thank a MAKER or MOVER you know today!