Shortage of Skilled Trade Workers

Stealhead · 07-25-13, 09:09 PM

That depends though trades can pay well but the demand is lower there is no getting around that.I work in refrigeration myself and the guys I work with we cover a good part of FL,Southern GA,South AL,and even all the way into LA.We have to go that far to get clients and some places especially your commercial and residential AC companies in particular really struggle.

Some goes for electricians I know of more than one place that has had to lay of workers or cut hours.I also know plumbers mainly small operations things are down for those guys too people simply are not building homes and small business and similar projects anywhere near as much anymore.

Some of these skilled trade jobs are in advanced fields in precision machining for example steam turbine production things like this and there just are not that many people that have these skills out there part of the problem is that people do not know about these trades at all.

The goal of college football is not to send guys to the NFL many college football and other athletes have successful careers in what they earned their diplomas in.

@Armistead yes that does happen for some people but any business venture is a risk and may or may not pay off in the long term and can be effected by numerous factors some that you can control and others that you can not.A great example are residential AC companies for over 30 years the bread and butter for these folks was new construction that has gone and may take many years to come back full swing.

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07-25-13, 09:09 PM	#28
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	That depends though trades can pay well but the demand is lower there is no getting around that.I work in refrigeration myself and the guys I work with we cover a good part of FL,Southern GA,South AL,and even all the way into LA.We have to go that far to get clients and some places especially your commercial and residential AC companies in particular really struggle. Some goes for electricians I know of more than one place that has had to lay of workers or cut hours.I also know plumbers mainly small operations things are down for those guys too people simply are not building homes and small business and similar projects anywhere near as much anymore. Some of these skilled trade jobs are in advanced fields in precision machining for example steam turbine production things like this and there just are not that many people that have these skills out there part of the problem is that people do not know about these trades at all. The goal of college football is not to send guys to the NFL many college football and other athletes have successful careers in what they earned their diplomas in. @Armistead yes that does happen for some people but any business venture is a risk and may or may not pay off in the long term and can be effected by numerous factors some that you can control and others that you can not.A great example are residential AC companies for over 30 years the bread and butter for these folks was new construction that has gone and may take many years to come back full swing.