11-13-2012, 09:37 PM
chopper wrote:
Requiring someone to know how to code CNC, mic out pieces and set up a lathe correctly before you'll give them $12 an hour seems like an absurdity.
Take away the CNC part and I learned that in 8th grade. Even those on a college prep track were required to take woodshop, machine shop and drafting in our school district. :oldfogey:
In this area that pay sounds like good money. My daughter has an advanced degree, diverse skill set and math through calculus and yet just got her first job paying more than $12/hr--5 years after earning her degree. This "dream job" is a whopping $15/hr with benefits. She has worked at least two jobs, 50-60 hours a week for over 8 years. That is the best she can do unless she moves out of the area, which she was getting ready to do before this opportunity came up. Prior to that she was constrained by a drawn out divorce that kept her here.