Reading list

I'm reading Wild At Heart, the book about how to become the adventurous man God apparently intends me to be. I thought the next step, because I'm pacing myself through the excellent but short book while I attend a monthly men's group, would be to get an instruction manual for adventure: The Dangerous Book for Boys. I hope to soon own both books, and judging by the reviews I'll want to move on to Eldredge's sequel, Way of the Wild Heart. I found a reading list which combines all of these, with a few things I want to read. I'm posting it here for my own memory as much as anything, but the list was posted by a Christian counselor here: http://www.hopeforyourfamily.com/recommended-reading/what-ive-read-recently/
The guy has good taste. His reading list started off with a writing how-to by Stephen King. I like King more than he does, and I want ot publish a novel about adventure. How can I go wrong?
There are a lot of selling points to the way of life proposed in Wild at Heart. Here's the most important part, and the truest to me: Every man spend his life thinking he is in over his head, and about to be outed by the big boys. That fear is unfounded, because all men share it even though all men are successful if they consider their most heartfelt definition of success. I don't feel adequate sometimes as a husband, father, worker, Christian, etc., yet I have stronger relationships and more to be thankful for in all those areas than many men.
I'm not too far into the book, but I know he's leading up to the idea that I, and all men, feel something is lacking in their lives. They want to fight for something worth fighting for, take risks, get bloodied, and win anyway. What would Jesus do? Exactly that. If you aren't out adventuring in life, whether it's on a dude ranch or in the office, something will always be missing because you aren't living up to the image God made you in. I don't believe all that religiously yet, but I'm starting to. I think I have a lot to gain, and then I will have a lot to pass on.

जोब्स फॉर the future

If unemployment is partly due to the fact that people aren't trained for the job market, meaning most people need more training rather than there just aren't enough jobs, then why don't we make sure everyone gets post-secondary training? Everyone gets to go to college. Then we don't have a bunch of unskilled, unemployed blue collar workers who can't handle a manufacturing slowdown. It seems like there are still plenty of jobs out there, if only our country cared enough to prepare people for them. The state and federal labor analysts have a pretty good idea what's going on with the economy, where workers are needed and what training they need.
Let the market take care of itself like it always has? Look, people don't know what jobs they need unless someone who knows can tell them. We have fully public education through high school which may not be preparing people for work, so why not have fully public education beyond that which guides people into career paths which are appropriate to them and the economy? Smart? Yes. Socialist? So what.