#1 thing I see that young people don’t have that manufacturing shops need are people who understand shop math.
That includes trig.
If someone doesn’t know trig, they have no business in a machine shop, unless they’re simply loading a pallet on a CNC machine and hitting the green button.
You would not believe how many kids get out of high school without geometry or trig.
But they know all about how to put condoms on just about anything that moves.
Yes, math is such a lost skill anymore! In college, I worked part-time as a math tutor, and usually was teaching what they should have learned in 6th grade.
I was amazed during a recent training class at work, I had to help a dozen people figure out how to dial the phone. I don’t mean just how to get an outside line, I mean how to dial, period! They kept looking for the “menu” button.