BS...My husband and I own a local oilfield trucking company. We have 4 driver positions available and have been trying to fill them for over 6 months. It may not be an engineering job, but our employees have some really good benefits and their pay ain't too shabby either.
I have advertised in all the area newspapers to no avail. There are gobs of truck driver jobs available around here, but no one to fill them.
So don't say there are no jobs for Americans, cause I'll argue with you every minute of the day over that statement.
A person may have to take a job to keep the bills paid, but why is somebody supposed to throught out years of hard fought and learned experience to take such a job.
Nothing wrong at all with being a truck driver, either, but there's adapting and there's tossing away a lifetime of experience.
In my case, I am not too proud to take a job at a fast food joint (even though I have a BSEE), but with what they pay it would cost me more in gasoline to commute to work every day than what I would earn in wages.
Same with $10 per hour engineering jobs 2000 miles from home. It would cost more to set up a second household than I would earn at the job.
Back in the 80's, temporary engineering jobs paid about three times what a "permanent" job was paying, which made it worthwhile to go to the jobsite for 6-12 months and live bachelor status.
I agree with you that there are plenty of jobs available if one is willing to work for almost nothing. What are you paying your truck drivers?
Hear! Hear!...tired of folks expecting jobs handed to them in their chosen field...Work is something to pay the bills...
If twelve to thirteen dollars an hour won't attract drivers, what does that tell you?