In all fairness... I have been in the trades as an auto mechanic for many years. Getting in, I was treated like a red-headed stepchild from New Jersey. Nobody was willing to teach me a hole lot of anything. Many of the other trades were worse. The macho BS, the hazing, bullying, and outright harassment were enough to keep a lot of younger people out of the trades. I learned my trade by working for FREE at a local transmission shop - just to get a foothold into learning how to be a competent mechanic. Has a lot changed today??? Are the young people welcomed into the trades? Are they taught how to do things the right way??? Just today, I was called into a shop run and owned by a young friend of mine. He had a Jeep with a miss on #6. He couldn't figure it out. I went to his shop and walked him through a diagnostic, and found the problem to be a bad camshaft - one flat lobe. This was after he had put injectors, coils, and a valve job into it, and the problem was still there.
The bottom line is that if we want new people to learn the trades, we have to WELCOME them in! We also need to see to it that the trades are not a dying art. These people will still need to make a living 20 or 30 years from now. Otherwise, it will all pass into oblivion.
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