DMiller
Senior Member
I never said anything about paying someone top dollar to learn. I'm saying if they have the skills, don't rope them into the same boat as the ones without, and learn how to spot the difference between the two.
Need to understand, when start with a new employer will be low on the pole as well until prove your value will be on the low end of pay spectrum, all us old farts in here were in those shoes and more than once. They have no clue what skills you do or do not have until you work awhile in sight of the boss. We learned to Not extend our credit so moves could be achieved if need be, in the 70s/80's/90s the odds of a company closing or being bought up and consolidated or just deciding to not have mechanics at high pay happened a lot, have to gear your mind to that way of thinking or you are sunk before ever float that boat. Had more than one employer, contract shop manager walk up and let me know the money was being cut, had not the funds to pay us the given rate so could stay or the door opened both ways, I walked quite a few occasions. I lived like a squatter more than once, rental trailers, RV trailers, even in old garages turned apartment until I knew what or where I was headed.