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Over eleven years Watt held Washington jobs that honed his expertise and his ideology. As a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyist, he worked to defeat all manner of environmental regulation. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations he served a well-rounded apprenticeship: as an Interior deputy in charge of water management, as director of the department's land-buying Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and, finally, as a federal power commissioner. As a result, Secretary Watt's technical mastery of his job is positively staggering...
...though Franklin's Autobiography and his how-to text The Way to Wealth reveal a great practitioner of situation ethics. His affable description of "one of the first errata of my life" cannot disguise that he employed a highhanded scheme to break his legal obligation to complete an apprenticeship at his brother's print shop in Boston...
Guidance counsellors themselves are often largely unaware of careers in the skilled trades. The result is a shocking lack of knowledge about such basic tasks as making metal-stamping dies. Says Don Fifer, the director of skilled training for General Motors: "Incredible as it may seem, we get apprenticeship applicants who say they want to go into diemaking because they are interested in working with colors...
Some companies do operate effective in-house training and apprenticeship programs, but the cost is high. At Jenkins Bros, in Bridgeport, Conn., it takes an estimated $20,000 and up to four years of on-the-job training to develop a journeyman machinist. Cincinnati Milacron, the nation's largest machine toolmaker (1980 sales: $816 million), cranks out no more than ten journeymen machinists a year from its own apprenticeship program...
Today's artisans can trim metal to within one ten-thousandth of an inch, using mechanical cuts more precise than the strokes of the finest brain surgeon. During a grueling four-year apprenticeship in vocational classrooms and on the shop floor, the toolmaker absorbs the principles of solid geometry and learns to think in three dimensions. He is expected to read labyrinthine blueprints as well as be aware of the exact levels of heat and pressure that will cause various metals to buckle and break...