Posted by zooeyhall on December 04, 2010 at 07:40:30 from (74.46.145.3):
I was talking to a local John Deere dealer the other day, and he was complaining about how tough it is to get qualified heavy equipment mechanics, and that the situation is going to get worse. He's been tearing his hair out because most of his experienced mechs are in their late fifties and he doesn't know what he'll do when these guys start to retire. He's even offering scholarships to the local community college for those who want to learn heavy equipment repair. I myself work for a company that provides maintenance services for large electrical motors in industry, and we are having trouble getting "new" people. It just seems like young people today don't want to work with tools and this kind of stuff. I've talked to several young people who are about to graduate from high school in my town, and all they talk about is going to college and getting a degree in business or finance or marketing or something. Why someone would want to spend 4 years in school and graduate with a load of debt, and join a bunch of other unemployed college grads. When you can go to school for 18 months and get hired even before you graduate, and start earning $40-$50k as a diesel mechanic? There seems to be this prejudice about doing this kind of work among young people today. About the only young people who seem to want to do this "hands-on" kind of work are the farm kids, and with rural population going the way it is, they are getting scarcer and scarcer.
I also wonder why we can"t see more young women go into this kind of work. I mean, a woman can be as good a mechanic technician as a man.
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