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https://www.flyingmag.com/the-aviation-mechanic-shortage-is-worse-than-you-might-think/

> Why Is It Hard To Recruit Mechanics?

> “Younger people discovered that there is a life outside aviation that is perhaps more stable,” he explained. “If you’re a mechanic, perhaps life outside aviation means less work on a hot ramp or in the rain. It’s also less work with dirt and at a higher salary.”

> It will be hard to ignore the salary aspect. In April, when inflation was at 4.5 percent, FLYING reported that mechanics at every level struggled to make ends meet.

But rightists, nazis, and conservatives assured me that college is a scam and trades is where it's at. Did they lie to me?

@ThatWouldBeTelling Everything is getting pummeled. So I suspect the boosterism about trades is not entirely well-founded. People look at Marty Anderson, who trims rocket engine nozzles with tin snips, and think being a welder is heroic like that, and pays accordingly. But it's no different than ghetto kids hoping to become ballers.

@avia It depends on the trade. Some of them can be quite lucrative, such as oil field or drilling workers, or some welders. Even more lucrative if you're working for yourself. But at the same time, it is much harder work physically than what you'd get from a college degree and often less stable since corporations tend to try and keep their office workers and highly educated workers over the people at the bottom when things get rough.

@kazriko The question is what the average is, or what the chances are. My own company produces between 40 and 20 times less income than my day job. And it consumes all my time outside of work.

@stuff Yeah, running your own company is always a gamble. On a good month I might get double what I was making at my day job, on a bad month I might get nothing. Most of the time I'm getting just a bit below what I was making at the day job, but with far less hours.