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Three weeks from posting this article, I’ll have been a flexographer for 39 years. For about 20 of those years, it has been my business to help employers and employees meet. I can’t recall a time when there were enough flexo press operators. This industry has grown and continues to grow at a pace faster than people become operators. I’ve had conversations with many company owners, managers, HR people and operators about...

I recall reading several years ago that the top three most stressful jobs, at the time, were: Police officer Surgeon Pressroom supervisor I may have dreamt that, but let me assure you, supervising a dynamic pressroom, without the skills to do it, can be a nightmare; for you, the people who report to you and the people you report to. Effective supervision relies on special skills we don’t necessarily learn at press....

Hi Folks, I’m glad to see FlexoJobs going again after launching our new platform. We hope you like it. I thought I’d use this blog to occasionally share my thoughts on employment-related stuff. Here goes my first try! Besides a profile here on FlexoJobs, I also have a LinkedIn profile where I offer my services to the industry. On LinkedIn, I am seeing more flexo press operators. That’s very cool. As a fellow job...

Something happened to me yesterday that got me thinking about my paradigms.   I have had the same wooden desk for almost 30 years. It’s old, but it functions beautifully. I love my desk.   I am very clever. I keep my desk organized. Most of the time, I can put my hand on anything on my desk, with my eyes closed. I have optimized it for efficiency, or so I thought.   I was organizing it yesterday and...

Well, we are SO excited! I know the old FlexoJobs.com was languishing. First, our web host changed servers and killed our Resume Submission Form. I tried everything I could think of, I badgered our web host's technical support people almost to the point of tears and got absolutely nowhere. Then, our email began having issues. It was time for a change! So, we changed web hosts and, in honor of our 20th Anniversary online, we have been hard at...