Our Education system is a mess

I visited a friend yesterday. A fellow Nurseryman. In ill health. Older man. At odds in his family. Widower. He has a large garden center (12 acres). He is wealthy. He wants to open up for business this spring. He could pay an excellent wage for the man or woman capable of operating a multimillion dollar facility, managing 30 people, keeping accounts, buying right, selling well, merchandising. Knowing horticulture well. All the things entrepreneurs need to do. Hustle and flow. The good news for the right person, he would finance the whole thing. No risk.

Here's the rub. Our education system and our security minded culture has driven the core ability to do this out of the men and women who should be right now 30-50 years old and ready to step into this role. That man or woman doesn't exist. They want a paycheck but then they want someone to tell them what to do. NO.... it doesn't work that way.

It's a crime. It's also an opportunity. If you can be delivered of everything you ever learned and the culture has taught you, if you can start to look at the potential and not the right now... you might be able to become wealthy.

WE can't create jobs in this country without people able to be the boss.. and few really are.