Yeah none of the corporate jobs I worked for offered a pension, at least to incoming employees. My uncle just retired from a state job a year ago at 55, he receives a pension of his full salary, which is based off his last three years of employment. He worked hard, and retired because the particular job he had was hard on his body, so not something you can do as you get older (working outside doing grounds maintenance), but I can imagine that if it was a desk job he would've stayed.
The trades are incredible right now. My father manages the technology for a technical high school system. The local trades companies keep telling the schools they will hire every student they can graduate, and the students that graduate are usually guaranteed a job and start out making a good salary (60k+) right out of school with zero debt. They don't have enough people to fill their empty positions.
My wife retired last year at 65 from a ins. co. Only people, normal staff, there over 60 were the ones close to 65 and just hanging in to finish it out and the ones with titles like VP or higher who didn't have the ''peon'' stress of the average employee. And of those I think it was just those waiting out the market to come up before cashing in.
Those that can make $22 an hour flipping burgers on overtime aren’t going to school to be dental assistants. Good luck with your hiring.
A friend of mine runs the automotive program at one of the public high schools. Out of his entire program he has maybe 2 students who want to work on cars for a living. He is regularly told by the higher ups that there is no need for vocational education anymore and as soon as he retires it is going away. The college I went to, Santa Barbara City College, has one of the best automotive programs in the state. We would regularly get students from there to start off as apprentices and then once they did the Ford training, become full fledged technicians. Now we call and tell them about openings and are told "no-one wants to do this for a living, they are just here because school is free and it means their parents can make us babysit them." sigh..
I had the guys at the shop when I worked at a Honda dealer in the Bay Area they don’t ever want to see me turn wrenches or see me at the union halls for the IAMAW/Teamsters or get an ass-kicking. They all say I was too smart for the trades.
In southern Ca. most LEO agencies start at roughly 80-90K per year right out of the academy. But one can easily make 150K - 220K per year with OT. That is actually more common than not today.
It will be a "push button" war so no worries!
I guess no one figured it out? EV's don't need an automatic transmission. I think this person was saying there is no future learning to work on them.
