Corporations need to take a better lead on developing our work force

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that they fund

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They don’t want to do this part.

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it’s a stigma that you must go to college we are still working through.

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This is true.

Thanks, Obama.

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What he means is he has 5000 mechanic jobs that the pay is sufficient enough for to either leave their own job or complete the training necessary to get his jobs.

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Evidently it is not sufficient enough because he can't fill them.

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Modern vehicles are nightmarish to work on for a lot of the experienced guys and certainly not designed with mechanics in mind. It’s less and less about turning wrenches as more about being an IT guy.

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It doesn't seem like this should bother the new generation of would be mechanics at all though

There will always still be some wrench turning as long as we have ICE engines

If it were less about wrench turning and more about computing and trouble shooting, I could see that being more appealing, not less appealing to incoming trades.

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There will always still be some wrench turning as long as we have ICE engines

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There's all the wrench turning there was 10 years ago. Just now there's so many input variables to the onboard computer, a mechanic needs to be a control systems guy to fix.

There's far more turbos and hybrids on the road today.

There's cameras and proximity sensors all over vehicles that perform auto safety and convenience functions such as emergency braking, auto cruise, lane departure assist, brake hold, park assist, drive modes, auto adjust mirrors, and tons more options I don't even know about.

Sounds like a more qualified individual is needed and the pay should scale up accordingly

I agree with Powerman, we are in the era of govern me harder daddy. Everyone bitches about government sucking, but wants government to come up with a solution. If you can't find qualified people, then you should train the people you have to do the job.

A couple of years ago the Waste Management CEO said he couldn’t find enough garbage truck drivers while paying over 100k a year. However, he has no shortage of office applications making 60k a year.


But, If you are a 20 year old do you want to start low and build a future career or be capped as a garbage truck driver.

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Did your employer pay for your education and training a.k.a. college degree?

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I dropped out of college and the job I have now is because of years of on the job training. I didn't start where I am now but got paid to get here. And had to take a lot of initiative to learn things myself to separate myself from my peers.

ETA - That being said, the first employer I worked with in this field said that they would reimburse me to finish my degree. That just never happened due to life circumstances.

Corporations are the reason we have a bad work force.

You send nearly all of the industrial jobs that sat at the foundation of the American middle class for decades overseas, push everyone into "coding", medical, sales and service, push university as the only real ticket to the middle class at ridiculously escalating, government subsidized numbers and then after it all collapses, complain about the workforce here?

It can be rebuilt, but our politicians would rather play political stunts like sending out "free" checks to everyone or fighting never ending wars to plump the pockets of missile makers. This government doesn't give a shite about its citizenry and the citizenry is too high on government cheese and pedoflix to give a shite themselves. It's one big malestrom headed for the bottom.