Hvac, Electricians, Machinists, Welders,Mechanics are in desperate need. I blame a huge part of this on school career councilors telling everyone that blue colar work is not worth it. They can ship IT over seas, but I want to see them ship my construction equipment to China. my shop has 7 mechanics, and two of us are apprentices, and we are so desperate for assistance we’re getting another apprentice promoted from yard work.
I’m glad I was a mechanic when I wore a younger man’s clothes. I owned, shot and maintained AK-47s for years. Then ARs got cheap and I bought one.
Gas rings on the bolt, tiny pins, numerous springs, it seems like a different tool needed for smithing just about everything.
It’s like the difference between working on a Dodge half-ton and a British sports car.
Which has nothing to do with robots, I just wanted to get that off my chest.
If true, wages in those professions should be going up very, very fast. Are they? I doubt it.
You hear that same song and dance from the software and network companies.
But wages at those companies have been stagnant since 1999.
By the way, 1999 was the year that Congress voted to approve a massive increase in H-1B foreign work visas.