Posted on 11/15/2025 1:13:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, is claiming that he cannot fill 5,000 mechanic jobs – even though they pay $120,000 per year.
This is a problem that TV personality Mike Rowe has been talking about for years. We don’t have enough young people in the country who are learning skills, such as working with tools, or how to do things like be an auto mechanic.
Meanwhile, we have a surplus of people in college who are going into massive debt wasting their time on useless topics like gender studies, women’s studies, and various social justice topics.
The New York Post Reports:
Ford CEO Jim Farley laments he can’t fill 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120K per year: ‘We are in trouble in our country’
Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.
“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast published earlier this week.
We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.”…
It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck — and the country isn’t training enough people to do it, Farley said.
“We do not have trade schools,” he fumed…
Yifare “We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a middle class life and a future for his family,” Farley said.
Back in April, Mike Rowe talked about this very thing.
Via BizPacReview:
“We’ve got $1.7 trillion in student debt on the books and we’ve got 7.6 million open jobs right now—most of which don’t require a 4-year degree,” Rowe said in a clip making the rounds on X.
Arthritis! “And we’ve got 6.8 million able-bodied men who are not only out of the workforce, they’re not looking.
“We took shop class out of high school, we robbed kids of the opportunity to see what that kind of work even looks like.
“Meanwhile, we told a whole generation of kids they were f**king screwed if they didn’t get a 4-year degree.
We are going to have a serious problem in this country if we don’t fix this quickly.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
They can tell you all about tats, face jewelry and ‘fascism’, what else could you need?
Get rid of welfare, that will motivate people to go into the trades.
“It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck”
Only off by about 4.5 years.
Can recommend a good guy from down the street but he has his own shop, probably wouldn’t wanna work for some UAW Affirmative Action halfwith thug as his supervisor.
Ya can’t learn useful skills when you’re on your phone all day in your formative years.
I'm going to call "Bullshit" on this one.!
So fking teach them. The military loses mechanics every day.
Given they also slash thousands of jobs whenever to make fiscal stock goals, and Fords huge mismanagement of many vehicles and trends, maybe they just don’t want to work for Ford.
How about not giving these schools a damned dime from us taxpayers for a start. They’ll learn how a free market works, something they should be teaching.
Need to bring shop classes back to schools.
That’s not a surprise. Who thought removing the entire truck cab off the frame was a good idea for engine service?
Who kept redesigning fasteners and connectors to require more and more special tools was a good idea?
Who speced parts to fail early?
Who designed complicated wiring systems that require constant software updates to diagnose?
Ford screwed themselves.
Too bad unemployed surplus coders do not possess mechanic skills.
Your right 120,000 a year is BS for most of the country,
Most mechanics I have talked do not like working for dealerships.
As they pay by the book not the hour.
And wheels still fall off after all these years of manufacturing vehicles.
Sadly many of the schools are a joke. I know someone who went to what was supposed to be a great auto trade school. After he graduated he had never learned how to change a CV Axle shaft and was asking how to do it. Those schools take your money, and most of them don’t care if they give you a useful education or not. There is no better school than learning on the job.
It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck
Five Years? That sounds far-fetched I don’t buy it.
If they need 5000 mechanics, what does that say about the quality of their vehicles. Just sayin.
Where has he been posting these job openings?
Trade schools AND apprentice programs.
They can tell you all about tats, face jewelry and ‘fascism’, what else could you need?
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And they’re getting the 3R’s in publik skool: rebellion, recycling and reproduction.
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