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Marathon
The 50th New York Marathon will take place this Sunday. And every time my comrades came back from New York and reported their wonderful experience, I made a resolution to run next year too.
A good 30 years later I still haven't succeeded and now that I really don't have a reasonable excuse anymore, I can't walk anymore - actually the only real one.
What do I learn from this? You shouldn't keep putting things off because at some point it's too late for everything. My friends, who are still happy and running well, will certainly suggest that I use an alternative means of transport and will also offer to accompany me the entire route.
Since I would probably turn down this offer myself, I might have to accept that other things are more important to me than voluntarily jogging 42,125 kilometers through a city.
In New York, for example, I like to walk and travel longer distances, but not really in a sports suit and in a group of thousands of runners.
So it's enough for me to reminisce about my comrades and the corresponding contribution in the New York Times to read, and this in the certainty that I very often did my rounds in the woods - mostly alone and lost in thought.
Skills shortage
"Work with professionals for once." This statement is likely to be heard more and more often in Germany in the future. "Last year, many companies assumed that they would be short of skilled workers in 2021." According to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation. The study continues: “In fact, the situation has worsened even further, as our current analysis shows. Immigration of skilled workers is helping to alleviate the problem. However, it continues to only play a subordinate role for companies.”
That pretty much says it all, except perhaps that it is always better to check the results, even with proven specialists, because there, too, gross mistakes are becoming more and more common. However, this is then often justified with a permanent overload and can thus be traced back to the shortage of skilled workers.
It is also less surprising, especially since we are in the middle of a pandemic, that the health sector is particularly affected by the shortage of skilled workers. And here, too, one has to ask oneself the question of whether it is legitimate at all to get the appropriate skilled workers from outside and thus create a shortage of skilled workers locally?
And that an internal redeployment of skilled workers is not the solution, as we can currently see in the United Kingdom, where bus drivers are now increasingly driving lorries and public transport is suffering as a result. This also raises the question of whether it is still possible at all to get the surplus public sector employees into jobs that are socially necessary and that are also urgently needed by everyone.
This can only be solved in the medium to long term by starting to reduce the public service back to what is necessary and, moreover, and in particular, abolishing the very comfortable "orchid departments", which usually only consist of sitting in armchairs and in completely superfluous ones Limit meetings hanging around.
Because the shortage of skilled workers is primarily a general misdevelopment of work here and a direct result of false promises and at least antiquated ideologies.
And even in the companies and thus in the private sector, one finds very quickly many chiefs but fewer and fewer Indians. And since a society cannot only consist of chiefs, unless they are all willing to do the work of the Indians, a rethinking in our society must take place urgently.
Only then will there be no shortage of skilled workers in the future!
trees
A very pleasant action took place yesterday. Under the supervision of the forestry office, young people planted 2 trees on Schweinsberg. It is even better that oaks were among them and that less exotic species were used.
Thank you to the students and trainees who took part in this campaign. Hopefully it was a lot of fun so we can hope to do it again soon. There is always enough space in the Heilbronn city forest to plant new trees.
It would be best, however, if our foresters would allow the trees to grow old gracefully and not monetize them all at the first opportunity.
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