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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The tech sector can't find workers fast enough. Manufacturing is endlessly looking for workers.

I do network engineering and also have worked in manufacturing (mostly driving forklifts). Those things are indeed hiring; but they only want to pay $18/hour. How hard of a concept that is to understand?

But if you wanna pay my tuition, I'd be happy to get a degree in something instead of just being Cisco and A+ certified and just going by years of experience doing the work.

[โ€“] CrabLord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My friend, you gotta get a different job. They are criminally underpaying you. I am currently working Desktop Support making $35/hr, I'd be astounded if any of our network engineers make less than that.