{"id":1266,"date":"2020-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericaleeconsulting.com\/to-those-who-make-and-move-things-we-owe-you\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T08:56:00","slug":"to-those-who-make-and-move-things-we-owe-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/to-those-who-make-and-move-things-we-owe-you\/","title":{"rendered":"To those who MAKE and MOVE things… we owe you!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Erica reflects on the essential services that are the only things moving during the current COVID 19 pandemic, and the importance of the people who perform them.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To those who MAKE and MOVE things… we owe you!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Even before COVID-19 shut most of our systems down, we had a shortage of labour in industries like manufacturing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Making stuff is cool! I can’t imagine a better way to start my career.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Yet (so I’m told) it’s hard to attract young people to choose manufacturing these days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Maybe to them it doesn’t seem as cool as a working for a tech startup, or as prestigious as being a consultant.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But oh my goodness the people who make and move things are VITAL to our society!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You know who I am talking about: makers of the goods we depend on (especially masks and ventilators, but countless other things), tradespeople, truckers, retail workers, farmers and farm laborers, grocery store shelf-stockers, even janitors and house-cleaners… the list goes on.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It took a global pandemic and a moment of crisis for some of us to realize what heroes they are — despite our lack of recognition of the importance of our work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Don’t they deserve just as much respect as the scientists or bankers among us?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I hope that from now on we can give these people the thanks that they always deserved.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Thank a MAKER or MOVER you know today!<\/p>\r\n