Professional situation modern Russia
It is actual fact, that humanist occupations are very profitable today. Since childhood a lot of people suppose this speciality to be very promising. With such an impression they are brought up in their families, go to school, to a institute and after all they begin educating their own children that way. Deadlock.
Why is it so? What do make people think that engineering sciences have lost their popularity?
There are several motives.
firstly modern technology reached such a high level of progress that society is capable of operating it without having specialized technological knowledge. So there is no point for subsequent spreading of technical skill. Humanits application begins prevailing in all fields of life.
second it is an actual fact that we live in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They want to depict the world around and use products, but not to make something by themselves. Of course this fact does not influence positively on diffusion of engineering knowledge. People are simply not concerned with it.
In the third place is the fact that the resource base has achieved such a degree of desolation that we often have no place for practice after studying the theory.
at last a very significant thing is the policy of the government. What professions does it consider as needed today? We can easily find out it by researching our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what images do they promote now? It is easy to prove that they are full of non-technical images. Mass-media present us easy 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 result?
Lack of competent 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 dangerous situation when we will be needing 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 experienced teachers able to educate adequate personnel working in non-humanist spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our society do in order to improve the state? it is clear that there are several actions to be taken. firstly our country should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs future. Then our country should do its best in order to popularize technical specialities in mass-media.
And of course, the best way to preserve technical specialities 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.