10 thoughts on ““In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.””
I am teaching my kids how to ‘protest’.
There clearly is a lot of money in, especially in Minnesota.
Nah, the need to open a learing center.
Mike Rowe is spot on on this issue. I’m almost seventy and still in the trades. Not for the money, but for the sparse population of youngsters that are willing to learn how to build and troubleshot mechanical systems. Seems everybody knows computers, but knowing what the computers control is a different story. Maybe AI will help push some of the brighter ones back into the realm where hard work pays off with good money and job security.
THIS ^^ is why I absolutely *love* Industrial Automation. I love the challenge of getting something done mechanically and electrically, it’s almost an art. The Controls Engineer has to “slow down” the computer’s speed to match how fast (or, slow) the mechanical parts are capable of performing the function. I was tickled pink when I finally got the machine or process control to do what needed to get done. It’s actually quite challenging to get the computer (or controller) to work with mechanical devices that do things in milliseconds at best. Things are shuckin’ and jivin’ in real quick, but the silicon brain can compute things thousands/millions/billions of times faster.
Back when I first started in the late 80’s the microcontrollers were relatively slow and stoopid, but that sure did change quickly. Now, a Raspberry Pi can scream along at megaflops/sec and yet fit in the palm of your hand!!
Technologia!!
yep , get into the trades and you’ll always be able to feed yourself. I’m just a maintenance mechanic and i make a decent living but if I was a journeyman electrician it would be double what i am pulling in. too bad so many kids are getting useless degrees rather than going to technical college and learning something useful. Lots of places will offer tuition reimbursement , make good grades , graduate , and stay with the company for 5 years and the school is paid for . not a bad deal huh?
The Finks of this fallen world will always need people to do the hard physical work of maintaining the infrastructure of civilization for them. So that the Finks can specialize in “forcing behaviors” (actual quote from The Fink himself), spreading degeneracy, importing fundamentally never-assimilable violent retards, and siphoning wealth away from the actually productive.
His pic next to the definition of evil.
Dont forget the machinists. With computers its much easier and less dirty, I mean if you want a 1″ threaded hole you thread mill it, no more twisting the wrench, no more cranking handles.
I killed myself for the first half of my career, then I got comfortable letting the computer do the physical work, I did the thinking.
(one more week, then no more!! retire!)
daddy-o
Glad to hear, Daddy-O.
Automation sure enables rapid *repeatable* machining, but for the unique onsey-twosies there’s nuttin’ like a skilled machinist. I especially like the mold-makers, those guys are GOOD. Holding tolerances to .0001 takes time to learn and do!!
Okay a little black pill time. As soon as leftist minded people find out they’re going to be surpassed, they change the rules to stay on top. Tech schools are becoming ‘community colleges’. Liberal arts nonsense is now mandatory for many two year programs, even electrician work. Want a business license? Guess what, the state now requires you to have a comprehensive hr policy on dealing with employees you don’t even have because your a one man show. And it’s all signed off on by some shlub with a masters in public administration who could pass basic HS algebra but for some reason is qualified to keep track of municipal budgets.
I’ve been through every single thing listed above. Us younger folk are screaming that the game is still being rigged and more often than not we’re told we have to shut up & quietly put in our dues.
I am teaching my kids how to ‘protest’.
There clearly is a lot of money in, especially in Minnesota.
Nah, the need to open a learing center.
Mike Rowe is spot on on this issue. I’m almost seventy and still in the trades. Not for the money, but for the sparse population of youngsters that are willing to learn how to build and troubleshot mechanical systems. Seems everybody knows computers, but knowing what the computers control is a different story. Maybe AI will help push some of the brighter ones back into the realm where hard work pays off with good money and job security.
THIS ^^ is why I absolutely *love* Industrial Automation. I love the challenge of getting something done mechanically and electrically, it’s almost an art. The Controls Engineer has to “slow down” the computer’s speed to match how fast (or, slow) the mechanical parts are capable of performing the function. I was tickled pink when I finally got the machine or process control to do what needed to get done. It’s actually quite challenging to get the computer (or controller) to work with mechanical devices that do things in milliseconds at best. Things are shuckin’ and jivin’ in real quick, but the silicon brain can compute things thousands/millions/billions of times faster.
Back when I first started in the late 80’s the microcontrollers were relatively slow and stoopid, but that sure did change quickly. Now, a Raspberry Pi can scream along at megaflops/sec and yet fit in the palm of your hand!!
Technologia!!
yep , get into the trades and you’ll always be able to feed yourself. I’m just a maintenance mechanic and i make a decent living but if I was a journeyman electrician it would be double what i am pulling in. too bad so many kids are getting useless degrees rather than going to technical college and learning something useful. Lots of places will offer tuition reimbursement , make good grades , graduate , and stay with the company for 5 years and the school is paid for . not a bad deal huh?
The Finks of this fallen world will always need people to do the hard physical work of maintaining the infrastructure of civilization for them. So that the Finks can specialize in “forcing behaviors” (actual quote from The Fink himself), spreading degeneracy, importing fundamentally never-assimilable violent retards, and siphoning wealth away from the actually productive.
His pic next to the definition of evil.
Dont forget the machinists. With computers its much easier and less dirty, I mean if you want a 1″ threaded hole you thread mill it, no more twisting the wrench, no more cranking handles.
I killed myself for the first half of my career, then I got comfortable letting the computer do the physical work, I did the thinking.
(one more week, then no more!! retire!)
daddy-o
Glad to hear, Daddy-O.
Automation sure enables rapid *repeatable* machining, but for the unique onsey-twosies there’s nuttin’ like a skilled machinist. I especially like the mold-makers, those guys are GOOD. Holding tolerances to .0001 takes time to learn and do!!
Okay a little black pill time. As soon as leftist minded people find out they’re going to be surpassed, they change the rules to stay on top. Tech schools are becoming ‘community colleges’. Liberal arts nonsense is now mandatory for many two year programs, even electrician work. Want a business license? Guess what, the state now requires you to have a comprehensive hr policy on dealing with employees you don’t even have because your a one man show. And it’s all signed off on by some shlub with a masters in public administration who could pass basic HS algebra but for some reason is qualified to keep track of municipal budgets.
I’ve been through every single thing listed above. Us younger folk are screaming that the game is still being rigged and more often than not we’re told we have to shut up & quietly put in our dues.