Mike Rowe: “We’re dealing with alarming math … For every five tradespeople who retire this year, two will replace them.”
“I got a call a few months ago from a company … building four nuclear-powered subs. They need to hire 100,000 tradespeople in the next nine years. This guy called me and said, ‘Can you help? … Do you know where they are?’
And I said, ‘Yeah, I do, they’re in the eighth grade.’ We have to start now, because we’re racing the math and the math almost never loses.”
Yep they took all the shop classes away from schools which created a huge decline.
Having a couple of long recessions also cause people to get out of the trade and not train any new people.
As a general contractor I have a hard time finding people to work.
This is why all of us contractors are so busy working because there's not enough people to fill the positions.
