7. A visit from Bruce Kendall

I loved hearing this guy talk. His voice was well projected and it felt that he had a lot of information to share. Based on this I would say that he does a lot of public speaking. He works at pierce county's Economic Development Bored as the CEO. I guess that what the board does is try to grow jobs and wealth but I believe what their main concentration here is to try and get more money from out of area to come into the Puget Sound area. They do this because they want to increase the economic opportunity for the citizens and businesses of the area. He talked about all the different clusters of jobs in Washington where some of the information was kinda cool to know. The map that he showed us displayed how quickly the job is advancing in the area with the amount of people that they are taking as well as the size of how many people are currently in that field. There are probably a few other aspects to that map but I can't think of them for the life of me. I guess that I would like to know the more current standings on this job since it is a pretty different ballpark nowadays with the bad economy. The big five clusters of jobs are Aerospace (mainly from Boeing but I think that he mentioned that there are possibly a few other small company's in the area), Clean Tech (I am actually glad to see that this is one of the big five because it is something that businesses should strive for), Information Tech.(good that this is up here since this is the field that I will be in), Life Sciences, and Logistics and informational trade. Don't forget the plus two(guess that they really wanted more than five) Defence contractors and corporate Headquarters.