Being The Change Verses Making the Change

Years ago, I came up with an idea of how I could provide a unique service to people. I was afforded the opportunity to go to college, even though it was a local community college. I accepted this offer and did quite well in school despite my age (50+). When I was nearing the completion of my two years, I was given the opportunity to go to a four-year university which I also accepted. After earning my bachelor degree, I remained to earn a master’s. Some have said that college would be a waste of time because of the years of experience in their trade. I disagree, College does help find the open doors and it aids in obtaining opportunities. However, college does not give you the practical experience acquired from working in the trade or desired field.

That being said we have a system which allows regulatory agencies to create new regulations which have never been tested in the field. It appears that the use of committees has gone awry.  Sometimes, an item of concern arrives and a committee is formed to seek the best method to tackle the problem. You should not read the hype of the salespeople trying to push their products. Listen to the hands-on people who are in the trades daily dealing with the task. These committees may have been well meaning at first, but when their solution doesn’t work it takes years to change the regulations. (An example would be prohibition.) And life of an industry or system can be viewed as a bell curve. Perhaps we are on the declining slide of the curve.

It appears we have the misuse of commissions by elected officials. Committees’ slots are filled by people who have further the official’s cause, or who have helped them acquire an office. These committees are not dissolved when the trouble waters are crossed because they weren’t created to help overcome a certain issue, they were created to say thank you, and as long as they have suggestions, they continue to draw salaries. I understand that an elected official needs a staff to aid them in areas of less familiarity. Still, these committees need boundaries.

They need an expiration date, they need a determined focus, and they need to have been recently in the trade, or occupation they are regulating. These committees are about making the changes, and changes are inevitable. I feel that some of the never-ending committees have gone amuck, they create new regulations to keep their paychecks and not to improve the body they have rule over. Would you trust your life of a person who have read the instruction manual on the proper method to land the plane who has helped the right person or who has the right degree on his wall or would you choose the person who has landed that type plane several thousand times.

There is no way that schooling can prepare a person for all the things that could possibly happen. That knowledge is acquired from experience. Maybe it’s time these committees’ suggestions be field tested before they are implemented. Maybe it’s time we require those on these committees to be the change they seek and not simply make the changes in a field they have no desire to enter. If they had to use their system of change I fear many of the regulatory changes wouldn’t exist.

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