#12113 Catholicism and Trade Work in the Modern Era - Jacob Imam

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Many employers struggle to find skilled and confident young workers—Jacob Imama, Founder of the College of St. Joseph the Worker explores why this is happening. We explore the challenges in hiring today’s workforce, along with advice for carpenters on pricing their work, words of encouragement for tradesmen, and biblical insights on land surveying.

Questions Covered:

20:11 – 45-year machinist wants to give Jacob words of encouragement and is thrilled about the College of St. Joseph the Worker.
28:20 – I am a carpenter who just started my own business. How do I appropriately price my work for clients, so it is fair but also takes care of my family?
32:24 – I find it hard to find and hire capable young men. Boys and young men just don’t seem confident to learn or try.
41:41 – What are your thoughts on the practice of land surveying as it appears in the bible?

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0:00.0	Buying or selling your home, real estate for life can connect you with a pro-life real estate agent.
0:05.2	When Real Estate for Life receives a referral fee, they donate 65% to Catholic Answers.
0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello, welcome to Catholic Answers Live.
0:32.0	I'm Sykelet, your host.
0:35.4	We're in a sport coat today because we have an important guest in the studio.
0:38.7	Dr. Jacob Emam is our guest this hour.
0:40.9	Next hour, Dr. Carlo Bussar, that's a lot of brainpower in two hours.
0:44.2	You are welcome to call either hour.
0:45.9	8883187-884, AAA-3187-884.
0:51.9	Jacob Emam is a convert to the Catholic faith, graduated from Oxford University.
0:56.4	That's over there in England. He was a Marshall Scholar, got his master's and doctorate over there,
1:00.9	with a dissertation in theology and economics. And what do you do with that? Well, you come back to the U.S.
1:06.4	and you teach and you start a think tank and you start a college and that's what he's been up to.
1:14.2	The new polity is the think tank that he is co-founder of and he's the founder of the College of
1:21.6	St. Joseph the Worker. Jacob B. Mom, thank you very much for being here with us.
1:25.8	I think so much. I thought we'd talk a little bit about that because you started the College of St. Joseph the Worker,
1:30.5	and there's a million things we can talk about with you.
1:33.4	But we'll talk about trade work, basically, in the Catholic view of trade work.
1:39.1	That sound all right with you?
1:40.1	This sounds great.
1:40.9	And you're willing to take calls.
1:42.2	Let's do it. 8883187-884 is the number,
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