Workers: Get with it--and get a viable job!

To my mind, Trump is doing a dis-service to the American worker: when there's no work or unsatisfactory work, YOU MOVE ON!


I was dissatisfied in thinking that I would be a college teacher the rest of my life, when I was 41, so I got with the program--I trained for another career and entered the computer field, where I was much appreciated and had a fun career.


But what is Trump doing?  Well, for one, he's telling the coal worker, don't worry, I put you back to work in the coal industry.  Now, just about everybody knows coal as a fossil fuel is on the way out.  Early in my teaching career, I lived in Athens, Ohio.  The county was dotted with abandoned homes, where coal miners and their families once lived.  The migration from the coal mines has taken over 40 years and is still continuing--now in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  The point is, it's time for the coal miners to move on.


The country has always been a "starting over point" for Europeans driven out by famine and mis-fortune.  That's why it's so strange that anybody would be trying to resurrect the past as a promise for the future, especially, that it should be the President of the United States.


Over the past few years, I ran into un-employed persons in search of a good-paying job.  Every one of these had been considering moving to North Dakota to join in the oil fracking explosion.  Plenty of work up there, I reminded them, as if they needed a reminder!


Well, I don't know if Trump will be successful in his bid to return to the past and to convince others, most unemployed, to follow his dream.  But I do know that the day of coal-mining is fast coming to a close.


So, former miners get with it!  With the help of your close family and friends, find something you can do that has a viable future to it!  Quit trying to return to the dreamy past; and importantly, learn to face reality! The world keeps changing and you need to change with it.   Let the coal remain in the mine shaft!


I recommend to MOVE ON!  (and, take your family with you!  I did.)


      .