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Re: Shortage of young mechanics?


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Posted by redtom on December 04, 2010 at 12:22:35 from (97.84.173.0):

In Reply to: Re: Shortage of young mechanics? posted by LittleFarmer on December 04, 2010 at 10:16:10:

Right on! I know of no mechanic starting at 40k in MI. When I started out in the late 80's I went 2 yrs to college and worked for 2 then returned and got a management degree. In 88 I was offered 21k to be asst service manager at a Navistar dealer (not enough money to be everyone's pi$$ing post). i went back to work turning wrenches, the pay?.. 8.50/hr!!! I was lucky to get into a forklift shop for Whopping 11$/hr. I luckily got into a large plant which has their own garage and make union wage. But its only a matter of time until some pinhead figures he can outsource us to the local dealers, why? because they only pay 12-15$/hr. max., but mostly 8.50 to 9.00/hr. they just laid off all our truck drivers that were making 20$ and replaced them with 14$/hr people. Why won't kids do it today? The same reason they wouldn't when I went to college in the 80's, Money!! I laughed so hard at the "nerds" I roomed with in college that were in CIT,(computer info technology) and marketing. There i was learning to wrench and they were typing. Guess what? they made good money and 25 yrs later are probably situated to retire. Me? they'll carry me out of the shop. I could have chosen anything, I should have chosen money.


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