Reconsider mech e if you don’t have a massive passion for it. Two reasons, fierce competition and a saturated market in a lot of places. Also, loads of math. Even your engineering classes are thinly disguised math.

If you’re comfortable with yeast, making pita is cheap, fast and requires very little skill.

Im running in to the same thing trying to buy a commuter. No one wants to budge on price.

Where do I sign up? I made my own puff paint tshirt already. I’ve got some rotten produce ready to toss too.

“in 2015, when asked about a poll showing a majority of young Republicans to approve of recreational marijuana legalization,”

Or just decriminalize drugs. Addiction and crime took a huge nosedive in Portugal when they decriminalized drugs and put money towards rehab.

Corporations have a huge incentive to beat their drums about there being a lack of qualified people. More people = lower wages.

Individual component prices have become pretty speedy too to encourage planned obsolescence. The contacts on my dryer wore out. When I looked to see how much fixing it myself would cost, I realized a brand new dryer was only about 50% more than repairing one that was 5-8 years old.

Two things - First, 5 weeks? Where do you work and are they hiring?!

Or they make good money but they have to move constantly and the job stability is volatile to put it lightly.

I think your last paragraph is a very big contributing factor. I’ve had friends drop out of the industry because the training requirements were getting to be insane. That seems to be the trend across the board as far as the workforce goes though.

1. was my knee jerk reaction. Same as every other industry, everyone wants someone with 10+ years of specialized experience on 5 year old technology and they want to pay entry level wages.

I always assumed they just spent their time doing Scrooge McDuck dives in their vaults and fending off the Beagle Boys.

Don’t call me out like that.

Tack on decriminalizing everything and diverting funds to rehab and you’d see crime and addiction PLUMMET.

Hank Hills jalop identify has been discovered.

You’re equally likely to be gored to death by a guy named Wayne too.

From rural Texas, have 4wd, can confirm assertion.

Fella is suffering from a case of the Bluegrass Blues

I think 25% of new Wranglers sold are JKs instead of JKUs. Could be an old stat though. There are literally dozens of us! DOZENS!