Professional problems today
It is well known fact, that humanist professions are very profitable nowadays. Since school a lot of people consider this profession to be very attractive. With such an viewpoint they are brought up in their families, go to high school, to a university and finally they begin bringing up their own children that way. Blind alley.
Why is it so? What do make people think that engineering sciences have lost their popularity?
There are several reasons.
first modern technology reached such a high extent of progress that the majority of people is capable of running it without having specialized engineering skill. thereby there is no need for subsequent diffusion of technical skill. Humanits application begins dominating in all spheres of life.
Secondly it is an well known fact that we live in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They like to depict everything and consume things, but not to make something by themselves. Naturally this phenomenon does not influence positively on spreading of engineering knowledge. People are simply not concerned with it.
Thirdly the resource base has achieved such a degree of desolation that we frequently have no place for work after studying the theory.
Finally a very significant thing is the policy of the government. What professions does it promote as asked-for today? We can easily find out it by researching our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what specialities do they promote now? It is easy to prove that they are full of non-technical images. Mass-media present us pleasant, nice life in which there is no place for hard-work, but there are a lot of talks, beautiful scenes and fantasies.
What do we have as a in the issue?
Lack of trained workers in the technological sphere. There are a lot of philosophers, lawyers, artists, singers, politicians, professors but a few people, able to operate for example a jointer planer. This will lead to a difficult situation when we will be lacking very simple things which are very important for our comfortable existence.
Besides that our education system is totally ruined. There is no technical literature of high quality – it is either sold or lost. There is no qualified teachers able to train adequate personnel working in non-humanist spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our state do in order to correct the condition? I think that there are several actions to be taken. First of all our education system should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs future. Then our country should do its best in order to promote engineering professions in mass-media.
And of course, the best way to preserve engineering professions is to assign enough means both for the payment for the people who work in this sphere and to the creating an adequate resource base.