My brother is a machinist at a factory. A dirty, backbreaking factory job for which he has earned upwards of $80-90K a year (a couple of years he surpassed $100K). In order for him to get that job 15 years ago, he had to take 12 hours a junior college + another year at a trade school (the company sent him). Now, they will only accept folks for the trade school who some kind of piece of paper after high school. That can be vocational school, a certificate, an associates...but it has to be something. There are factories all over the south with openings for machinists BTW. If know anyway with those skills, send them to Alabama or N.Carolina.
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