[TWhiteBear]

‘I have an in-law who does work with the local electricians union. They have a training and apprentice program to train workers for high-voltage lines, industrial electrical installations, etc... The (nearly all) guys coming out are easily making $50/hour before any overtime or benefits

They can’t find enough people to even enter the program, much less graduate from it.
‘
25 years ago, DS got a HVAC cert from a trade school. He makes more than most of the instructors at the college he maintains. After graduation, he has never been unemployed.
TWB

[ridesthemiles]

I graduated high school 5-23-1957.

I already knew how to type-—file—and to run a calculator to add columns & to do other office work. While I had to ‘be trained’ in the particular details of any individual company, I already knew those skills.

In fact, in those days, large companies used to come out to the rural Wisconsin high schools & TEST who ever wished to be tested & they RECRUITED from those in school contacts. I was tested & recruited by Kroger for their Divisional office in Madison, Wis., and that became my first full time real job.

Now- since then, the ACLU & NAACP sued to force schools & companies to no longer be allowed to TEST students to find their IQ, skill ability or their natural direction for any particular job. Add affirmative action, and you have a mess.

[ridesthemiles]

I graduated high school 5-23-1957.

I already knew how to type-—file—and to run a calculator to add columns & to do other office work. While I had to ‘be trained’ in the particular details of any individual company, I already knew those skills.

In fact, in those days, large companies used to come out to the rural Wisconsin high schools & TEST who ever wished to be tested & they RECRUITED from those in school contacts. I was tested & recruited by Kroger for their Divisional office in Madison, Wis., and that became my first full time real job.

Now- since then, the ACLU & NAACP sued to force schools & companies to no longer be allowed to TEST students to find their IQ, skill ability or their natural direction for any particular job. Add affirmative action, and you have a mess.