Need a Job? Become an Engineer

You used to be able to work at a plant all your life, with decent pay. Now low skill “plant” jobs are going to robots, China and other countries.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielknowles/100118217/our-greatest-social-problem-there-are-no-jobs-left-for-the-dim/

The sad thing is, there are TONS of jobs if you have an education. Companies in the US can only fill about 20 percent of the STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math) jobs they have available.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/plenty-of-jobs-if-youve-got-the-right-skills/

So where are these companies going to find the engineers and scientists they need? Right, India and Brazil.

And that’s not all. While you often hear companies need skilled factory workers to operate the sophisticated manufacturing equipment found on factory floors today, it’s not exactly true. If they needed more skilled workers in factories, wages would go up in those situations, but they haven’t.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-14/the-coming-shortage-of-skilled-manufacturing-workers

But, long term all the boomers doing these jobs (average age now 56 in manufacturing jobs) are going to retire, and we DO NOT have enough trained workers ready to take their place. American companies cut all their training, and soon we will pay the price.

It’s like the water pipes bursting all over the place in Los Angeles. The pipes were laid in 1916 and never improved. So now they break down every day, and it will only get worse.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/water-main-break-floods-hollywoods-sunset-strip-25794154

Everyone says you need to invest for the future, but as a country we are not investing in people or infrastructure.