[eastendlu]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

I have been saying that exact thing for the last 15 years. I haven't met a single young person who is in my trade in a decade. I feel like a dinosaur. I have always luved to get my hands dirty. The sad part is my trade was a very high paying job 30 to 40 years ago. Now it is sad that my wife makes 3 times an hour what I do pushing a pencil, going to meetings and talking on her blackberry. It's caught up with us. A whole generation of a skilled, mechanically inclined, workforce has gone by the boards and it will take 20 years to train people to get their hands dirty again. You don't learn these skilled trades over nite and the people left doing it are dying, retiring, and getting older so their go your mentors and teachers. Very sad situation. Get used to made in China.

Me too