“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” – Jackie DeShannon, 1965.

According to Kristen Bahler in Money Magazine, what the world needs now are more tradespeople: skilled workers, plumbers, electricians and technicians for all our appliances, conveniences and necessities.

If you watch television, you’ll see the attractive spokesmodels for the trades and I’m sure that is a marketing idea because I don’t expect Jason White showing up to fix my air conditioner. Mike Rowe, former host of the TV show “Dirty Jobs” says that today’s blue-collar worker is smart and capable and, according to most...