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HOT TECHNOLOGY = COOL JOBS: An Advocate’s Fight to Increase the Number of Students Entering Maintenance Technician Jobs
Posted by Kandy Collins on August 22, 2011
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What is your impression of these jobs? –Mechanic –Welder –Electrician –Air Conditioning Technician Despite the consummate skill and training that these and similar maintenance professions require today, they often still bear the unfortunate stigma in the public’s eye of being menial “grease monkey” jobs — occupations that (unlike many white collar four-year college professions) require…