# 2. The bigger problem is in more skilled positions like truck drivers and skilled trades.
I have a friend in the elevator trade. There simply aren’t enough younger folk in the pipeline to make up for the older folks retiring. It is definitely a skilled job. You can’t just walk up off the street and fix an elevator or escalator. It literally takes years for a newbie to become useful.
As with so many other professions, once elevator repairmen cost too much the industry will find a way to bring foreigners in to do it for less.
I’ll believe low unemployment figures when wages rise for most people; otherwise its just a hoax.