You couldn't afford to hire me anyways.
I'm calling BS on your productive Teamsters story. The Teamsters I've seen are far more adept at wielding baseball bats than MIG torches.
Though I doubt your industrial knowledge and experience, you are correct in that people have a nostalgic misbelief that manufacturing is somehow a dirty and dingy occupation. Here a picture of part of our machine shop operation. The guys who work here are nonunion (of course), motivated and well paid. Each makes more than his college educated peers. I find humor in those that say we are in an information economy and manufacturing is obsolete. These guys spend most of their days handling information. The machinery handles the parts.
