It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.
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Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.
It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.
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