I was thinking about automation in the industry which got me thinking has the huge push for automation and the publication of it so widely potentially damaged the industry??
It’s like when someone sees a brand new robot assembly line installed in their factory they can either ignore it or think (I NEED TO DO SOMETHING)
The thing is though this has happened quite a lot now in the UK. Many people have had first hand experience of job losses in their family due to optimisation/automation or just sourcing work somewhere cheaper like China. So when people see that automation of drivers is inevitable who would want to become a driver even if it’s 30+ years away?
It would literally be like starting your career as a coal miner in the early 1970s.
I started as a coal miner in 1974 and got 20 years out of it,7and a quarter hour shifts time and a half Saturday double time Sunday good rate of pay good pension scheme pay rise every year holidays and rest days when you wanted them workmates that were mates, a lot would say you won’t get me down a pit but it’s better than what we have to put up with now
I’ll start to worry when I see my postman deliver my post on a hover board,remember those things they said would be commonplace by the year 2000…18 years ago!!
toonsy:
It’s cyclical anyway. Older ones among us have had to deal with change previously just like the younger ones will have to deal with it in the future.
Panic not. It will work out in the end.
The problem is the change you made from coal mining to factory job for example is less of an option now, as the other un/low skilled jobs are also being automated so that the average factory worker/supermarket checkout operative who is not capable of servicing/repairing this new equipment doesn’t have the new job to go too
Me too. Don’t think I’d consider truck driving now though if I was 25 again. I know old gits always moan that things were better in the olden days, but things were better in the olden days.
Me too. Don’t think I’d consider truck driving now though if I was 25 again. I know old gits always moan that things were better in the olden days, but things were better in the olden days.
Remember abba,the magic rounderbout,I don’t mean the one in Swindon, blue Peter ,jackandnory, ah the good old days,bring them back
Me too. Don’t think I’d consider truck driving now though if I was 25 again. I know old gits always moan that things were better in the olden days, but things were better in the olden days.
